Tjalhuizum / Tsjalhuzum

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B01: Apostle or saint - St. Joseph

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B02: Virgin Mary - crowned

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

B03: Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - with grill

B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Via Crucis - Veil of Veronica

Scene Description: with a Latin cross symbol [cf. FontNotes]

B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

B06: Apostle or saint - St. Barbara - with symbol

Image Source: reproduced in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarder Geemenschap (1 0ktober 1966), p. 13

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B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter

Scene Description: identified by his split beard [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: reproduced in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarder Geemenschap (1 0ktober 1966), p. 13

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B08: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul

Scene Description: identified by his fiery beard [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: reproduced in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarder Geemenschap (1 0ktober 1966), p. 13

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Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 3

Scene Description: Saints Barbara, Peter and Paul? -- notice the tower symbol to the right of St. Barbara's head, St. Peter's split bear [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: reproduced in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarder Geemenschap (1 0ktober 1966), p. 13

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design element - architectural - column - torsade - 8

Image Source: reproduced in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarder Geemenschap (1 0ktober 1966), p. 13

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: artist's rendition of the church in 1723

Image Source: 1982 B&W photograph [31 951] of a 1870-1879 Albert Martin drawing in the Fries Fotoarchief [http://collections.tresoar.nl/cdm/search/searchterm/Tsjalhuzum] [accessed 2 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - tower

Scene Description: built 1871

Image Source: B&W photograph taken May 1967 by H.M. van den Berg, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren,_(1871)_-_Tjalhuizum_-_20209644_-_RCE.jpg?uselang=nl] [accessed 2 January 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: 1982 B&W photograph [31 953] of a 1870-1879 Albert Martin drawing in the Fries Fotoarchief [http://collections.tresoar.nl/cdm/search/searchterm/Tsjalhuzum] [accessed 2 December 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: 1982 B&W photograph [31 952] of a 1870-1879 Albert Martin drawing in the Fries Fotoarchief [http://collections.tresoar.nl/cdm/search/searchterm/Tsjalhuzum] [accessed 2 December 2015]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Doopvont uit de kerk van Tjalhuizum [...] andernachersteen [...] 1450 - 1499 [...] 27.0 cm, 40.0 cm, 54.0 cm, 73.0 cm, 88.0 cm"

Image Source: edited version of a photograph in the Fries Museum [http://media.delving.org/thumbnail/friesmuseum/fries-museum/B00428_01/220] [accessed 3 February 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20284TJA

Museum and Inventory Number: Fries [formerly Friesch] Museum, Leeuwarden

Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde kerk

Church Location: Tsjerkegreft 7, Tjalhuizum, 8771SJ Nijland, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Friesland

Directions to Site: Located 2 km NW of Sneek [until 2011 it was in the municipality of Wymbritseradeel]

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1200-1299?

Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, to Ilse Stap and to Joost Limburg for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: earlier church demolished in 1823 but tower was re-built in 1871

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are photographs [Tresoar Fotos, no. 31 952 / 9533] of drawings of the font in the Dutch Reformed Church in Tjalhuizum made by a photographer of the Friesch Museum in 1982. The museum's Catalogus of 1881 describes the font of Andernacher stone originally from the church at Tjalhuizum, a gift to the museum [cf. infra]; the octagonal basin is decorated with eight Gothic carvings, the heads identified as those of St. Joseph, a crowned Mary, St. Lawrence, Veronica's veil, St. Andrew, St. Barbara, St. Peter and St Paul; the description includes measurements [="Doopvont uit de kerk van Tjalhuizum, rustende op een achtkantig piedestal, versierd met gothieke bogen (Andernacher steen). De kom van binnen rond, van buiten achtkantig; op elk vlak een medaillon en haut relief, voorstellende en buste: 1. de H. Jozef; 2. de H. Maria met een kroon op het hoofd; 3. de H. Laurentius, kenbaar aan den onder hem geplaatsten rooster; 4. Christus of het Veronicon (H. Zweetdoek) met een gedeelte van het latjnsche kruis; 5. De H. Andries, kenbaar aan het achter hem geplaatste kruis; 6. De H. Barbara, kenbaar aan den toren van de H. Drievuldigheid; 7. De H. Petrus, kenbaar aan zijnen gesplitsten baard; 8. De H. Paulus, kenbaar aanzijnen spitstoeloopenden baard. Zie het medaillon in de Dictionnaire des Antiquités Chrétiennes, 1877, pag. 647. Hoogte van de geheele vont 0.88 M. " van de kom 0.40 M. Diepte van de kom 0.27 M. Middellijn van de kom van buiten 0.73 M. " " " " " binnen 0.54 M. Geschenk van den heer F.J. van Welderen Baron Rengers te lJsbrechtum'] The DBNL entry [www.dbnl.org/tekst/_voo016voor08_01/_voo016voor08_01_0044.php] [accessed 2 January 2015] quotes from the Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel IX. De provincie Friesland. Algemeene Landsdrukkerij (Den Haag: A. Oosthoek; Utrecht, 1930) which describes a 15th-century sandstone font with an octagonal basin decorated with carved faces of saints, originally from the church at Tjalhuizum, but in the Friesch Museum at the time [="Een zandsteenen doopvont (XV), inwendig rond, uitwendig achtkant, op ieder vak versierd met in relief gehouwen aangezichten van heiligen, afkomstig uit de voormalige kerk (zie e), is in het Friesch museum te Leeuwarden."] An entry in the Leeuwarder Gemmenschap of 1966, reproduced in the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden [http://periodieken.historischcentrumleeuwarden.nl] [accessed 2 January 2016] illustrates three of the eight sides of the basin and identifies the heads on them as St. Barbara, and the apostles Peter and Paul.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.046735, 5.614114

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 2′ 48.25″ N, 5° 36′ 50.81″ E

UTM: 31U 675228 5880665

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Andernacher)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Basin Total Height: 40 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Catalogus (1881: 168) [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Friesch Genootschap van Geschied- Oudheid en Taalkunde te Leeuwarden, Catalogus van het Museum [Leeuwarden], Leeuwarden: H. Kuipers, 1881