Zweeloo No. 1 / Zweelo
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design element - motifs - braid or double rope moulding
Scene Description: very worn now
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a substantial moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - vine
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - patterns - fan-frieze
Scene Description: the bottom of the fans wrap nicely round the edge of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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human figure - 4
Scene Description: very worn; at 90-degree angles on the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Knottnerus, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by J. Knottnerus [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/zweeloo_16.htm] [accessed 26 January 2016]
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2011 by Gouwenaar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_Zweeloo2.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A.E.v.Kooten, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2014 by A.E.v.Kooten, Ermelo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zweeloo,_De_Wheem_10_-_Hervormde_kerk-2014-0001.JPG] [accessed 26 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: artist's rendition of 1883
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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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 July 1962 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Zweeloo_-_20228169_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016
Image Source: B&W photograph taken July 1962 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Zweeloo_-_20228170_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2016]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of font - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2019 by Joost Limburg
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20318ZWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: for a time at the Drents museum
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk
Church Location: De Wheem 10, 7851 TA Zweeloo, Netherlands -- Tel.: 0591–371612 / 06-54715755
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Drenthe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N381, WNW of Emmen, SSE of Groningen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 24 Jamuary 2016] for his help in documenting this font and the photographs of church and font
Church Notes: original wooden church 12thC; present church late-13thC; restored 1929-1930
Font Notes:
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Listed with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who gives the location as the museum at Assen. Drake (2002) classes this font as Bentheim, Berge a. Type I, in a group which incldes those at Ankum 1, Arle, Berge, Borghorst, Emlichheim, Emstek, Gescher, Haselüne, Hattem, Jellum, Lastrup, Metelen, Münster Museum, Norg 1, Ochtelbur, Ramsdorf, Recke, Toornwerd, Vries and Zweelo. Noted and illustrated in Knottnerus [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/zweeloo_16.htm] [accessed 26 January 2016] as a baptismal font of Bremer sandstone ["van Bremer zandsteen"] of the 13th century, similar to the fonts at Norg and Vries [cf. Index entries]; the entry is footnoted to Deijk (2002: 127). The roughly cylindrical basin is missing a good part of the upper rim, and likely the top double roll moulding or braid that characterises this type; the vine below is complete, as are the double moulding below and the fan-frieze at the very bottom; the ends of the fan-frieze wrap nicely down towards the underbowl; the base is in a poor state of conservation, but four human figures at 90-degree angles habe survived, however worn, as has the thick roll moulding all around; the square lower base is much damaged; the former museum code is still visible on it in black lettering. [cf. Index entry for Zweeloo No. 2 for a second font or stoup (?) listed for this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.793097, 6.735808
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 47′ 35.15″ N, 6° 44′ 8.91″ E
UTM: 32U 347335 5851658
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 34 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 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; p. 163
Steensma, Regnerus, "Bentheimer doopvonten en wijwaterbekkens in Nederland", 23, Jaarboek voor liturgieonderzoek, 2007, pp. 1-18.