Norg No. 2 / Noarch

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].