Wageningen

Image copyright © Stevenskerk, 2016

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Results: 12 records

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luke Barkhuis, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken December 2015 by Luke Barkhuis [https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/12486003_823991711056381_1797632854227657864_o.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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design element - motifs - panel - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luke Barkhuis, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken December 2015 by Luke Barkhuis [https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/12486003_823991711056381_1797632854227657864_o.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of the heads; damaged

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franz van Flaanderen, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Franz van Flaanderen [www.facebook.com/StevenskerkNijmegen/photos/pcb.823992387722980/823991814389704/?type=3&theater] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one of the three heads that have survived

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stevenskerk, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph in Stevenskerk [www.djdekker.net/stevenskerk/int/beeld/doopvont.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: scanned image of an undated engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677), Wenceslas Hollar Digital Collection [No. P898], in the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Wageningen.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016

Image Source: photograph taken July 2001 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzicht_met_gedeelte_zuidgevel_met_kerktoren_-_Wageningen_-_20358026_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016

Image Source: B&W photograph taken November 2012, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inwendig_naar_het_oosten_-_Wageningen_-_20248810_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: as displayed in Stevenskerk, Nijmegen

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stevenskerk, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph in Stevenskerk [www.djdekker.net/stevenskerk/int/beeld/doopvont.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: December 2015: the font being prepared for shipping at Sint-Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, its home since 1964; it would be delivered to the Gemeente Wageningen for temporary storage until the restoration at the Nederlands Hervormde Grote of Johannes de Doperkerk is completed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gemeente Wageningen, 2016

Image Source: photograph in the Gemeente Wageningen [www.wageningen.nl/Actueel/Nieuws/Archief_2015/Middeleeuws_doopvont_terug_in_Wageningen] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: December 2015: the font being prepared for shipping at Sint-Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, its home since 1964; it would be delivered to the Gemeente Wageningen for temporary storage until the restoration at the Nederlands Hervormde Grote of Johannes de Doperkerk is completed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Heijmans, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2015 by Jan Heijmans [www.facebook.com/StevenskerkNijmegen/photos/pcb.823992387722980/823992097723009/?type=3&theater] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: font in a box -- December 2015: the font being prepared for shipping at Sint-Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, its home since 1964; it would be delivered to the Gemeente Wageningen for temporary storage until the restoration at the Nederlands Hervormde Grote of Johannes de Doperkerk is completed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Heijmans, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2015 by Jan Heijmans [www.facebook.com/StevenskerkNijmegen/photos/pcb.823992387722980/823992237722995/?type=3&theater] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the travelling font:being loaded outside Sint-Steveskerk, Nijmegen -- destination: Wageningen

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Heijmans, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2015 by Jan Heijmans [www.facebook.com/StevenskerkNijmegen/photos/pcb.823992387722980/823992324389653/?type=3&theater] [accessed 24 January 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20313WAG
Museum and Inventory Number: at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1903-1964
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Grote of Johannes de Doperkerk
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Bergstraat, 6701 Wageningen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Gelderland
Directions to Site: Located on the N bank of the Nederrijn
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original church here 1263; extended 15thC; remodeled 16thC
Noted and illustrated in Schönlank-Van der Wal (2001) with date in the 15th-century; the font was still at Stevenskerk, Nijmegen, at the time . The Gemeente Wageningen [www.wageningen.nl/Actueel/Nieuws/Archief_2015/Middeleeuws_doopvont_terug_in_Wageningen] [accessed 24 January 2016] informs of the return to the Protestant church at Wageningen of its medieval font on 17 December; this source gives a brief history of the previous whereabouts of the font: the basin of the ancient font turned up in an excavation in Kapelstraat, Wageningen, in 1852; afterwards the old basin was moved to a nearby garden where it spent time as an ornament; in 1903 the basin, weighing 1,250 kg, was taken to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it was mounted on an unrelated base; in 1964 the font was loaned to Sint-Stevenskerk in Nijmegen. The basin is octagonal and had originally four human heads at 90-degree angles on the upper rim, three of which have survived; the sides between the heads are decorated with the usual combination in this type of font (from top down): flat moulding, scotia, round moulding; the underbowl is round and has eight cartouche-like panels on it; the present base [not original] is octagonal, splaying towards the bottom. The font was displayed in Sint-Stevenskerk. Nijmegen, with a low dome metal cover. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 Match 2024) contained a direct corroboration from a local source, Drs. B. Nederveen, Informatiespecialist, Afdeling Collectie Informatie & Archief, of the above information: "Hartelijk dank voor uw email en interesse in het Rijksmuseum. Het klopt inderdaad dat dit de doopvont is die zich tegenwoordig in Wageningen bevindt. Wij beschikken helaas niet over een goede foto van de doopvont. Over T. Stuart kan ik u het volgende melden: De doopvont is in 1852 is opgegraven in de tuin van de postdirecteur E.J. Haspels in Wageningen (hoek Nieuwstraat en Kapelstraat). Toen het huis door de dochter van Haspels, mej. E. Haspels, in 1898 werd verkocht aan de heer H.C. van Herwerden (directeur van de plaatselijke Van Gend & Loos), ging de doopvont in deze koop mee. In 1903 werd het doopvont door deze nieuwe eigenaar, maar onder de familienaam van zijn vrouw Th. Stuart, in bruikleen gegeven aan het Rijksmuseum. In 1964 werd het vont in bruikleen gegeven aan de Stevenskerk in Nijmegen en op 18 december 2016 is het stuk naar Wageningen overgebracht."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.964861, 5.662384
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 53.5″ N, 5° 39′ 44.58″ E
UTM: 31U 682901 5760478

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Height of Base: 60 cm* [modern]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round low-dome with Trinity symbol finial/handle

REFERENCES

Schönlank-Van Der Wal, M., "Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Gelderland", irg. 27, Bulletin Stichting Oude Gelderse Kerken, 2001, pp. blz. 3-17; r["References"]