Dorkwerd / Dorkwert / Dorquert

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2021 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2021 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - vine - palmette - linked palmettes

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2021 by Joost Limburg

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design element - patterns - fan-frieze - palmette

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2021 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2021 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing some of the damage to the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2021 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: showing the drilled hole for a cover lock or anchor, and a lead plug next to it

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorkwerd_-_kerk_(3).jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorkwerd_-_kerk_(2).jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorkwerd_-_kerk_(1).jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church interior - east side

Scene Description: the east end of the nave after the 2007 restoration

Image Source: digital photograph in Kerktijden.nl [www.kerktijden.nl/gem/617/pkn-herv-gem-dorkwerd] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church interior - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011 in May I show you, Kunst & cultuur (voorheen VKBlog delfzijl e.o.) [https://klaasantonmulder.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/open-kerk-middag/] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: no font visible here

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken May 1942, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inwendig_naar_het_oosten_-_Dorkwerd_-_20063324_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: after the 2007 restoration

Image Source: digital photograph in Kerktijden.nl [www.kerktijden.nl/gem/617/pkn-herv-gem-dorkwerd] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of context

Scene Description: [PDF map]

Image Source: PDF map by Ehhe Knol received from Joost Limburg

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view of font

Scene Description: the font is reported in the museum at Groningen by Ligtenberg (1915) [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph by P.B. Kramer, in the collectie Vinhuizen, RHC Groninger Archieven [ref.: NL-GnGRA_818_2655], Beeldbank Groningen

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: after the 2007 restoration: the new font (?) and an old almsbox

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 April 2011 in May I show you, Kunst & cultuur (voorheen VKBlog delfzijl e.o.) [https://klaasantonmulder.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/open-kerk-middag/] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20280DOR

Museum and Inventory Number: Museum van Oudheden voor Provincie en Stad Groningen, Groningen

Church/Chapel: [originally from the Nederlands Hervormde Kerk]

Church Location: Hoogeweg 2, Dorwerd, 9746 TN Groningen, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Groningen

Directions to Site: Located 4 km NW of Groningen city centre, now a suburb in its municipality

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Larrelt group [Drake]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Church Notes: original church here documented 13thC; present church 1648; restored 2007

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted with measurements and illustrated in Ligtenberg (1915) as the basin of a baptismal font made of Bentheim sandstone in the 13th (?) century in the Groningen museum. It may have been used for a time as the base of the pulpit in the old church at Dorkwerd; it was moved to the Museum van Oudheden voor Provincie en Stad Groningen, in Groningen [cf. infra] [Voorloopige Lijst der Nederlandsche Monumenten van Geschiedenis en Kunst, deel XI: De Provincie Groningen, opgemaakt en uitgegeven vanwege de Rijkscommissie voor de Monumentenzorg. 's-Gravenhage (Algemeene Landsdrukkerij), 1933. [281 blz. ISBN -]. Hierin "Ned. Herv. kerk": blz. 102 (zandstenen doopvont, XIII, uit Dorkwerd bevindt zich in het Museum van Oudheden voor Provincie en Stad Groningen te Groningen)]. Listed in Drake (2002) as a Bentheim font of the Larrelt group. The remaining basin is indeed very similar to the one at Larrelt, with the semi-geometric vine forming round arche-heads atop, another vine in the middle, and a band of fan-frieze pattern towards the bottom of the basin. The base is missing. There is no cover present but there is damage to the sides of the upper rim consistent with the earlier presence of a cover on it. A communication from Joost Limburg (e-mail of 12 November 2021) reports: "A couple of days ago I got an answer from the Groninger Museum re the font's history. The Museum received the font in 1894 as a gift from a Harm van Weerden (1814- 1897) from Dorkwerd. The entry in the Museum's books reads "A beautifully carved sandstone baptismal font from the 14th century, probably originating from the Dorkwerd church. Gift from mr. H. van Weerden under Dorkwerd." Egge Knol, from the Museum, writes [to Joost Limburg] that he thinks that at the time Mr. van Weerden was living in a house in Dorkwerd that originally belonged to another family called Hooiboer. In a map he means to point out which house that was and also where the church is, but unfortunately the arrows are missing. [...] I have asked if he could send me another version with the arrows included, but no answer yet." [NB: a new map with the marked arrows was received from Joost Limburg (e-mail of 15 November 2021)]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.250509, 6.512056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 1.83″ N, 6° 30′ 43.4″ E

UTM: 32U 334016 5903026

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm*

Basin Depth: 34 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 163)

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; r["References"]