Nuth / Nut

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design element - motifs - circle - 8

Scene Description: pairs of large incised circles on the basin sides, between the heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth [www.bavonuth.nl/foto_groot/doopvont.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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design element - motifs - spur - 4

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth [www.bavonuth.nl/foto_groot/doopvont.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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human figure - head - 4

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth [www.bavonuth.nl/foto_groot/doopvont.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1 October 1992 by van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_ZUIDGEVEL_-_Nuth_-_20281973_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - west view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 November 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuth-Kerk_(1).JPG] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken May 1970 by Gererd Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Nuth_-_20170411_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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view of font

Scene Description: artist's rendering ca. 1915
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Image Source: drawing in Ligtenberg (1915: 241 fig. 10)
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parochie H. Bavo. Nuth [www.bavonuth.nl/foto_groot/doopvont.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/nuth/bavo] [accessed 31 December 2015]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 20279NUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Bavokerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Bavo [aka Allowin, Baaf, Bavo of Ghent, Bavon, Bavonius]
Church Location: Dorpstraat 24, 6361 EL Nuth, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located on the N298, NE of Maastricht
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church 13thC; re-built mid-18thC
Font Notes:
Noted with measurements and illustration in Ligtenberg (1915) as a limestone font of the Mosan type having a metal insert for the holy water; the font consists of a round, almost hemispherical basin, decorated with four small human heads at 90-degree angles, the sides in between decorated with pairs of large shallow circles like those on the Vorendal font; on a broad central shaft; the lower base is round-to-square, with spurs at the angles. Modern metal font cover [copper?] of low-dome shape with round knob finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.918864, 5.884469
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 7.91″ N, 5° 53′ 4.09″ E
UTM: 31U 702737 5644765

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 94 - 105 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 164)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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, 241 fig. 10