Vreeland

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animal - winged?

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Image Source: edited detail of a "Foto van het middeleeuwse doopvont uit Vreeland (Portengen, Niftarlake 1919)", reproduced in Cruysheer (2009: 28) [https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/3aed62rs5c30sbh5/images/1-1a3b9d7680.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - varied

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Image Source: edited detail of a "Foto van het middeleeuwse doopvont uit Vreeland (Portengen, Niftarlake 1919)", reproduced in Cruysheer (2009: 28) [https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/3aed62rs5c30sbh5/images/1-1a3b9d7680.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2016]

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human figure - head - 4?

Scene Description: only two on the surviving fragment, one male and one female? [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a "Foto van het middeleeuwse doopvont uit Vreeland (Portengen, Niftarlake 1919)", reproduced in Cruysheer (2009: 28) [https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/3aed62rs5c30sbh5/images/1-1a3b9d7680.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2016]

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symbol - the instruments of the Passion - crown of thorns

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view of basin - drawing

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view of basin - fragment

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2006 by China_Crisis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreeland.HervormdeKerk.JPG] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2012 by HenkvD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vreeland_-_Kerk_RM26131.JPG] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 April 1995 by de Koning, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_(KOOR)_-_Vreeland_-_20292416_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 April 1995 by de Koning, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_VANAF_HET_KOOR_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Vreeland_-_20292414_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - pulpit

Scene Description: view of the pulpit and 'doophek'

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 April 1995 by de Koning, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_PREEKSTOEL_MET_DOOPHEK_-_Vreeland_-_20292418_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the late ash-tray like baptismal font and its holder on the side of the pulpit, in the tradition of the Dutch Reformed Church

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 12 April 1995 by de Koning, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPBEKKEN_MET_HOUDER_-_Vreeland_-_20292422_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the late ash-tray like font on the front of the pulpit

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken October 1943, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inwendig,_preekstoel_-_Vreeland_-_20247139_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 21 January 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20309VRE
Museum and Inventory Number: Stedelijk Museum van Oudheden [now Centraal Museum], Agnietenklooster, Nicolaakerkhoft, Utrecht / Museuum te Utrecht [in 1919]
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, Vreeland
Church Location: Kerkplein 1, 3633 BG Vreeland, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Utrecht
Directions to Site: Located 2 km N of Loenen aan de Vecht, in the municipality of Stichtse Vecht
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Utrecht
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church 13thC?; destroyed in local war; new church built in 1333;
Ortt van Schonauwen (1858) writes of the fragment of of an old stone baptismal font located in a garden not far from the church, amounting to about the third of the basin; the fragment has three outer sides of the octagon, with a male and female head still remaining on it, though much damaged; the upper side between the heads has a flat moulding, a scotia and a roudn moulding below; the sides below have framed rectangles containing foliage, and other carvings; not much is left of the underbowl, but one almost-full side has survived and shows a crown of thorns on it; the next side to the right shows part of a winged beast. Based on these characteristics Ortt van Schonauwen (ibid.) suggests a similarity with the fonts at Amersfoort and Eepe, and a dating in the 14th century or later. The fragment remained just outside the village, by the road from Vreeland to Loosdrecht, and was, at the time of OvS' writing in the Stedelijk Museum van Oudheden [now Centraal Museum] in Utrecht. Noted in Cruysheer (2009), with an illustration captioned "Foto van het middeleeuwse doopvont uit Vreeland (Portengen, Niftarlake 1919)." The present entry in the Centraal Museum [http://centraalmuseum.nl/ontdekken/object/?img_only=1#o:27154] [accessed 22 January 2016] reads: "Fragment van achthoekig doopvont (1400 - 1499 – 15de eeuw). Schenking + 1905 (bruikleen sinds 1874). Dit object is nu niet in het museum te zien", and the annotation informs that it is probably from the church at Vreeland, and was found in a garden nearby. [NB: it is possible that the eight-sided underbowl contained symbols of the four Evagelists alternating (?) with four Instruments of the Passion. The similarity to Epe and Amersfoort mentioned in OvS [cf. supra] refers only to the general shape of the font, as those fonts have none of the detaild carvings on the sides and underbowl; they do, however share tha heads and moulded upper side]. The basin fragment is noted and illustrated in J.A. Portengen's De Doopvont uit de Kerk te Vreeland (1919: 30-31); it places the fragment in the Museum te Utrecht, with inventory/control number 1414. [in JAARBOEKJE van het Oudheidkundig Cenootschapp "NIFTARLAKE", 1919 [NIFT_1919.pdf]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.230653, 5.033986
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 50.35″ N, 5° 2′ 2.35″ E
UTM: 31U 638908 5788642

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Notes on Measurements: Cruysheer (2009) has: "De steen had een hoogte van 60 centimeter en een breedte van 75 centimeter (diepte kom 34 cm, breedte kom 58 cm" [these being the measurements of the surviving fragment]

REFERENCES

Cruysheer, Anton, "Het verdwenen middeleeuwse doopvont uit de hervormde kerk van Vreeland", [www.academia.edu], 2009
Ortt van Schonauwen, J., "Oude Doopvonten", Vierde Deel, Derde Serie, Kronijk van het Historisch Genootschap Gevestigd te Utrecht, 1858, pp. 143-152; r["References"]