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Scene Description: as illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915); he reported the font in the cemetery at the time; notice the flat wooden cover on it
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: fig. 5)
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view of font
![inside the old church in 1926; the font, which had been reported in the cemetery ca. 1915 [cf. FontNotes] is seen here after an obvious restoration: the head on the left is a modern replacement, as are the outer colonnettes of the base; the lower base, however, appears original; the plinth is modern -- the church would be badly damaged in 1944, WWII](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151225013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: inside the old church in 1926; the font, which had been reported in the cemetery ca. 1915 [cf. FontNotes] is seen here after an obvious restoration: the head on the left is a modern replacement, as are the outer colonnettes of the base; the lower base, however, appears original; the plinth is modern -- the church would be badly damaged in 1944, WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: of the two seen in this 1926 photograph the left is a modern replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other
Scene Description: zoomachia or ffriendly play?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: the old church in 1926; it would be badly damaged in 1944, WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the mid-20thC church
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 April 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venray_Wanssum,_RK_kerk_portaalzijde.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the mid-20thC church
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 April 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venray_Wanssum,_RK_kerk_torenzijde.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the old church in 1926; the church would be badly damaged in 1944, WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the old church in 1926; it would be badly damaged in 1944, WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voormalige_Michaëlkerk_(Wanssum)] [accessed 25 December 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "De doopvont in de Sint-Michaëlkerk van Wanssum blijft zichtbaar"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bart Coenders, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph July 2021 by Bart Coenders [https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20210729_94700792] [accessed 5 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20258WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Church / Chapel Name: Rooms-Katholieke Sint Michaëlkerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the modern church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: church here documented by 1400, but earlier church or chapel must have existed on site; became parochial 1485; badly damaged in WWII; re-built 1950s
Church Address: Pastoorstraat 10, Wassum, Venray, Netherlands [the old church was located on Oude Kerkstraat 2]
Site Location: Limburg, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N270, in the municipality and 5 km E of Venray, about 20 km N of Venlo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Roermond
Additional Comments: altered font? (restored between 1915 and 1926; some (one?) of the heads and the outer colonnettes of the base are modern
Font Notes:
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Ligtenberg (1915) reports a font located in the cemetery [="Tijdelijk op het kerkhof. Deze maat is niet nauwkeurig, wijl voet, steel en kuip tijdens ons bezoek ter plaatse gescheiden lagen"], and gives measurements; in Ligtengerg's illustration (ibid.) the font is shown standing on a single broad shaft, and it has a flat round wooden cover on it; a 1926 photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed shows the font already restored. A Mosan baptismal font with a round basin raised on a multisupport base in "Wansum" is noted in Drake (2002) [NB: nor known whether Drake visited the font or used bibliographical sources for his listing]. The font is illustrated in a July 2021 article 'Kerk van Wanssum wordt multifunctioneel centrum' by Angela Janssens in De Limburger [https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20210729_94700792] [accessed 5 October 2023] which informs of the re-purposing of this church as a "multifunctioneel centrum"; according to it, the font will remain in situ.
[Sources found but not processed: 1) Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche Monumenten van Geschiedenis en Kunst, deel VIII: De Provincie Limburg, opgemaakt en uitgegeven door Afdeeling A der Rijkscommissie voor de Monumentenzorg. Uitgegeven in twee doorgepagineerd delen. 's Gravenhage (Algemeene Landsdrukkerij), 1926. [642 blz. ISBN -]. Hierin "de vroegere R.K. kerk (H. Michaël)": blz. 535-536. Hierin: blz. 535 ("Romaansche doopvont (± 1200, aanmerkelijk vernieuwd) met vier koppen"). 2) Deijk, Ada van, Romaans Nederland. Amsterdam (Architectura & Natura Pers, Zodiaque), 1994. [352 blz. ISBN 90.71570.35.5]. Hierin: blz. 336 (doopvont)]
[Sources found but not processed: 1) Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche Monumenten van Geschiedenis en Kunst, deel VIII: De Provincie Limburg, opgemaakt en uitgegeven door Afdeeling A der Rijkscommissie voor de Monumentenzorg. Uitgegeven in twee doorgepagineerd delen. 's Gravenhage (Algemeene Landsdrukkerij), 1926. [642 blz. ISBN -]. Hierin "de vroegere R.K. kerk (H. Michaël)": blz. 535-536. Hierin: blz. 535 ("Romaansche doopvont (± 1200, aanmerkelijk vernieuwd) met vier koppen"). 2) Deijk, Ada van, Romaans Nederland. Amsterdam (Architectura & Natura Pers, Zodiaque), 1994. [352 blz. ISBN 90.71570.35.5]. Hierin: blz. 336 (doopvont)]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his update on the present [2022] re-purposing of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 297168 5713549
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.536545, 6.075258
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 32′ 11.56″ N, 6° 4′ 30.93″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: font photograph with a cover ca. 1915 [cf. FontNotes] and another in 2021
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 176
- Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 164 and fig. 5