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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

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Image Source: digital photograph 2007 in J. Knottnerus [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/vledder_11.htm] [accessed 9 January 2016]

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design element - architectural - column - 5

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - patterns - diaper

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2009 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_de_Doperkerk_Vledder.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2014 by Pa3ems [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vledder_-_Joh_de_Doper_-_2014_-005.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the later ashtray-like font is visible by the base of the pulpit

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken May 1959 by G.Th. Delemarre, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Vledder_-_20242934_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the later ashtray-like font is visible by the base of the pulpit

Image Source: digital image of B&W photograph taken September 1955 by G.Th. Delemarre, in Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Vledder_-_20242932_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ligtenberg (1915: p. 166 fig. 4)

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Doopvont uit Vledder (XIe eeuw) / Prov. Museum - Assen"

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Noted and illustrated in P.W.J. v. d. Berg's Ouder doopvonten en hun gebruik, in the Nieuwe Drentsche Volksalmanak, 56e Jaar (1938) [doopvonten en hun gebruik.pdf] [accessed 7 April 2022].

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the Reformation font in this church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20291VLE

Museum and Inventory Number: Assen museum [for a time? between 1887 and 1988]

Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk Johannes de Doper

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Lesturgeonplein 4, Vledder, Drenthe, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 521 785 572

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Drenthe

Directions to Site: Located off the N655 [aka Vledderweg], in the municipality of Westerveld, 24 km NW of Hoogeveen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Group A/B1, Transitional [Drake]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: a chapel at Vledder ca. 1000; present church 15thC with mid-14thC saddle-top tower;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915) as a Romanesque sandstone font with traces of red paint at the time in the museum at Assen. Noted and illustrated in P.W.J. v. d. Berg's Ouder doopvonten en hun gebruik, in the Nieuwe Drentsche Volksalmanak, 56e Jaar (1938) [doopvonten en hun gebruik.pdf] [accessed 7 April 2022]; the caption in this illustration located the font in the "Prov. Museum - Assen". Listed and illustrated in Drake (2002) as a font of the Bentheim School, "Group A/B1, Transitional with colonnettes"; the group includes the fonts at Almen, Apeldoorn and Vledder; Drake (ibid.) adds: "There are three fonts which have slight vertical articulations in the manner of Vledder and Apeldoorn, the lower half cut back to provide the appearance of a massive central shaft flanked by four engaged colonnettes. These are Fulkum and Funix [...] and Dunum". Drake (ibid.) notes the partail similarity between this font and the stoup at Norg [cf. Index entry for Norg No. 2]. The entry for this church in Reliwiki [https://www.reliwiki.nl/index.php/Vledder,_Lesturgeonplein_4_-_Johannes_de_Doperkerk"] [accessed 12 June 2022] dates the font to the 11th century: "Het doopvont in de kerk dateert uit de 11de eeuw en is groot genoeg om, zoals destijds gebruikelijk, een pasgeborene in onder te dompelen." The Encyclopedie Drenthe Online [www.encyclopediedrenthe.nl/Doopvont] [accessed 9 January 2016] notes a stone font from Vledder probably of the end of the 12th century. Font made of Bentheim sandstone said to have come from Gildehaus, Germany. Steensma (2007) dates it 12th-century. The appearance of this font is less refined than most of those of the Bentheim groups, a characteristic that has earned it an earlier date among those who have noted it; as Drake (ibid.) has indicated, it bears some similarity to the holy-water stoup at Norg [cf. supra]; its decoration consists of a flat moulding at the upper rim with a rope moulding below, fllowed by a broad band of diapered pattern all around, and another moulding with a series of round arch-heads below which Drake (ibid.) describes as "a Lombard frieze of twelve arches"; the font is monolithic but the lower half has been carved to resemble the traditional five-support base, as described in Drake above; there is even a resemblance of a round lower base at the bottom end. The font appears to have been sold to the museum for 25 florins in 1887, but has been on loan at the parish church since 1988.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.858444, 6.207822

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 51′ 30.4″ N, 6° 12′ 28.16″ E

UTM: 32U 312024 5860176

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 1?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 38 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (1915: 163)

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"]

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