Wanssum / Wânsem / Wansum

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animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other

Scene Description: zoomachia or ffriendly play?

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

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: of the two seen in this 1926 photograph the left is a modern replacement

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the mid-20thC church

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

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 church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: the old church in 1926; it would be badly damaged in 1944, WWII

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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

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

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

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view of font

Scene Description: as illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915); he reported the font in the cemetery at the time; notice the flat wooden cover on it

Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: fig. 5)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "De doopvont in de Sint-Michaëlkerk van Wanssum blijft zichtbaar"

Image Source: digital photograph July 2021 by Bart Coenders [https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20210729_94700792] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20258WAN

Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint Michaëlskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Pastoorstraat 10, Wassum, Venray, Netherlands [the old church was located on Oude Kerkstraat 2]

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Limburg

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Venray, on the banks of the Maas river

Font Location in Church: Inside the modern church

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his update on the present [2022] re-purposing of this church

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.536545, 6.075258

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 11.56″ N, 6° 4′ 30.93″ E

UTM: 32U 297168 5713549

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

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; r["References"]