Oud-Valkenburg

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2014 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oud_Valkenburg,_de_Johannes_de_Doperkerk_RM36816_foto8_2014-09-28_15.15.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph taken January 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR_N.H._PRIESTERKOOR_-_Oud-Valkenburg_-_20266319_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken January 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR_N.H._WESTEN_-_Oud-Valkenburg_-_20266317_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite font

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken January 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_IN_DE_N.ZIJBEUK_-_Oud-Valkenburg_-_20266329_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph taken January 1991 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT_IN_DE_N.ZIJBEUK_-_Oud-Valkenburg_-_20266329_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20242VAL

Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk H. Johannes de Doper

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Oud Valkenburg 29, 6305 AA Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Limburg

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, in S Limburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the aisle

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: the font at Eys, also in south Limburg?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: original church here 12thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in the Rijksmonumenten.nl site [www.rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/36816/johannes-de-doperkerk/schin-op-geul/] accessed 22 December 2015] as a baptismal font consisting of a [lime]stone basin on a sandstone base [="Hardstenen doopvont op zandstenen onderstuk"]. The awkward looking font is obviously a composite object; the small cylindrical basin is totally plain, and could be quite early, perhaps the font of the original 12th-century church here; it is now raised on a sandstone [cf. supra] pedestal base of three volumes in a single block of stone: the top is octagonal with irregular panels on the sides; the next volume down has very large crudely carved cherub heads all around; the bottom volume is square and plain, with chamfered angles. The metal font cover is dome shaped, of two volumes, with a Latin cross finial; perhaps 19th-century. We have no information on how this object came to be put together. Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] suggested the similarity of this old basin with the one at Eys, also in Limburg.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.854933, 5.854447

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 17.76″ N, 5° 51′ 16.01″ E

UTM: 31U 700903 5637576

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]