Norg No. 2 / Noarch

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animal - reptile - snake?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail & transfer of 8 June 2024)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 167 fig. 11)

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3

Scene Description: much damaged on this side

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail & transfer of 8 June 2024)

view of basin - upper view

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

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: 167 fig. 11)

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view of font or stoup

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail & transfer of 8 June 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 20288NOR

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. Magaret of Antioch

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: Inside the church, beneath the tower (?) [cf. FontNotes]

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

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this object

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Ligtenberg (1915) lists and illustrates a second Romanesque sandstone font in the Assen museum at the time; the small diameter of the basin, 20 cm., suggests a holy-water stoup [NB: like the Bentheim sandstone font of this church it had been returned to the church by 2008]. Noted in Drake (2002) as a holy-water stoup from Norg, similar to the Bentheim fonts Drake classes as "Group A/B1, Transitional", which bears some similarity to the font at Vledder. The object consists of a narrow cylindrical basin decorated with three roll mouldings above an arcade of blind round arches on very church columns that rest on yet another roll moulding; roll moulding again at the centre ring on a cylindrical pedestal base; the lower base is round to square; a thick roll moulding may actually be a snake, as one of the corners that looks like a spur could actually be part of the reptile. Badly damaged. [NB: the object bears the former code of the museum on its lower base but it is unreadable in our source].

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

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"]