Jellum

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1960, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Janum_-_20120747_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the late-19thC church

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Scene Description: as displayed in the Kerkmuseum, Janum, in 1960

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Doopvont uit de kerk te Jellum [...] zandsteen [...] 1100-1200"

Image Source: digital photograph in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden - Collectie Koninklijk Fries Genootschap [https://collectie.friesmuseum.nl/?diw-id=tresoar_friesmuseum_B00427] [accessed 13 June 2024]

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Scene Description: the Jellum font in the interior of the church at Janum [NB: the Janum church would become a museum officially in 1947, but it was already being used as one in 1946, when this photograph was taken]; the font from Jellum is in the foreground, left [north] side

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Scene Description: the interior of the church at Janum in 1960; the former church had become a museum in 1947 -- the Bentheim-sandstone font from Jellum is displayed in the foreground, left [north] side

INFORMATION

FontID: 20281JEL

Museum and Inventory Number: Kerkemuseum Janum. Tsjerkestrjitte 4, Jannum, Netherlands

Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk Jellum

Church Location: Hegedijk 15, Jellum, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Friesland

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality Littenseradeel [before 1984 it was in the municipality Baarderadeel]

Font Location in Church: [in the Kerkmuseum, Janum]

Date: ca. 1200?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: original church date unknown; the 1700 church here was struck by lightning in 1832 and 1893; in 1983 the church burned down completely; new church built 1895

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The Catalogus of the Leeuwarden museum (1881) describes a 12th-century Romanesque baptismal font from the church of Jellum, somewhat similar to the one at Hattum [i.e., Hattem]; the font was donated to the museum at Leeuwarden by the Jellum churchwardens [="Doopvont uit de kerk te Jellum De kom rond de buitenzijde versierd met vjf gebeeldhouwde randen de bovensten 1 en 2 twee tegenelkander inloopende kabels de middelste veel breeder met lofwerk uit hangende druiven en palinetten bestaande de vierde een kabelrand en de vijfde met opstaande streepen Romaansch De kom rust op een voetstuk en wordt gesteund door vier dierenkoppen De geheele vont is uit één stuk andermacher steen in de 12de eeuw ingehouwen Te vergelijken met die te Hattum afgebeeld in de Berigten van het Hist Gezelschap te Utrecht II 1 blz 225 no 5 Hoogte der geheele vont 084 M Hoogte van de kom 0.41 M Middellijn van de kom 0.82 M Diepte van de kom 0.30 M Geschenk van heeren Kerkvoogden te Jellum". Noted with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915) as a sandstone baptismal font of the Romanesque period kept at the museum in Leeuwarden. Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Bentheim School, Berge a. Type I. Photographs of the Kerkmuseum in Janum show the Jellum font their collection by 1946. The records in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Collectie Het Koninklijk Fries Genootschap, show the code for this item as B00427 [and, as of June 2024, in storage and not accessible to the public].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.162778, 5.743333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 9′ 46″ N, 5° 44′ 36″ E

UTM: 31U 683393 5893893

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm* / 80 cm** / *** 82 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm* / 30 cm**

Basin Total Height: 41 cm* / 40 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / 85 cm** / *** 84 cm

Notes on Measurements: * Catalogus... (1881: 169) / ** Ligtenberg (1915: 163) / *** Fries Museum

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"]