Norg No. 1 / Noarch

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design element - motifs - braid or double-rope moulding - 2

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: not much of it left now; also, the corner figures(?) are missing, as is most of the square lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - bearing fruit

design element - patterns - fan-frieze

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - rim - detail

Scene Description: the recess to fit a font cover is clearly visible here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

Scene Description: said to have been four figures that decorated the angles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken November 2000 by J.P. de Koning, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_overzicht_zuidwestgevel_-_Norg_-_20321855_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: [NB: a few years earlier, in 1968, the chancel had a raised dais with seating places; they were all removed and a simple altar was put in place in the manner of the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic church interior setting

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken February 1972 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Norg_-_20170022_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Margaretakerk (Norg), doopvont"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2017 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noarch,_Margaretatsjerke,_romaansk_doopfont.jpg] [accessed 8 June 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of font

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view of font

Scene Description: the missing corners had human figures that were destroyed, perhaps by iconoclasts? / Dutch Calvinists? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the Bentheim sandstone font is located inside the chancel, by the side of the north pillar of the arch

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20287NOR

Museum and Inventory Number: for a time in the Assen museum -- returned to the church in 2008

Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk Sint-Margareta

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Church Location: Brink 2, 9331 AA Norg, Drenthe, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Drenthe

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Noordenveld

Font Location in Church: The font is now located in the chancel, N side [cf. FontNotes]

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

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

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this church and font, and for his help in documenting the font

Church Notes: church 13thC; restored 19thC, 1970s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915) as a sandstone font of the Romanesque period in the museum at Assen at the time. Noted in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of Bentheim sandstone, "Berge a. Type I" in the H-Drente Museum. [NB: both Ligtenberg and Drake mention a second object from Norg, a holy-water stoup listed in this Index as Norg No. 2]. Baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with two sets of braid or double-rope mouldings with a grape vine bearing fruit in between, the lower side with a band of fan-frieze pattern all around; the upper rim of the basin is much damaged, a considerable chunk of stone missing at one end, a damage likely caused by the metal anchorings of an old cover; it is raised in what remains of its round-to-square pedestal base; this part is also badly damaged, to the extent that the fragment has lost much of its carving, namely the four seated lions [cf. infra] that would have decorated the angles, just as they do in the similar font at Haselüne, of the same "Berge a. Type I" group [cf. supra]. The Encyclopedie Drenthe Online [www.encyclopediedrenthe.nl/Norg] [accessed 5 January 2015] mentions two sandstone fonts in this church, the oldest, it states, now in the hall, was from an early wooden church here, while the other, of Bentheim sandstone, is 13th-century [="De kerk bezit twee zandstenen doopvonten: het oudste, in de hal, is afkomstig van de houten kerk uit de 12e eeuw, het andere van Bentheimer zandsteen, dateert uit de 13e eeuw"]. A communication to BSI from Joost Limburg (e-mail of 8 June 2024) succesfully argues that the now broken off angles of the upper base were human figures, not lions [cf. supra]: "As to the base, I don't think there were lions. In all cases I saw, including the ones in Germany in Friedrich Petersen's book, the lions don't reach above the rim or ring under the basin. Also there's no trace of their front legs, which usually reach up till just under the ring. OTOH, figures like in Vries do go higher than the ring, as they seem to support or carry it with their shoulders, so their heads are on and above it. Whatever was cut away on the Norg font did reach as high as the figures in Vries or Zweeloo. Furthermore, I read that the church in Norg was founded as a subsidiary of the one in neighbouring Vries. The fonts of both churches may have been ordered and made at the same time [...] The decorations of the basins are almost identical, only the position of the bunches and the leaves aling the vine are reversed. So the bases could have been identical as well."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.066228, 6.461364

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 3′ 58.42″ N, 6° 27′ 40.91″ E

UTM: 32U 329907 5882651

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Steensma, Regnerus, "Bentheimer doopvonten en wijwaterbekkens in Nederland", 23, Jaarboek voor liturgieonderzoek, 2007, pp. 1-18.