Zweeloo No. 2 / Zweelo

Noted and illustrated in Knottnerus [http://home.kpn.nl/n1357/zweeloo_16.htm] [accessed 26 January 2016] as an octagonal font of stone in this church; the author cites Schiffer (1842: 130), who suggested this was the replacement of the Bentheim font at the time, and Warmolts (2002: 29), that views it as having served as holy-water stoup before the Reformation. The object consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides rounded at the underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base, and a wider moulded lower base, also octagonal. It appears to be big enough for a font of the period, but closer examination of the inner basin would help in determining which was the original use. Whetever it was used for later is of course another matter, as some fonts and stoups had their functions swapped through the centuries. [cf. Index entry for Zweeloo No. 1 for an earlier font in this church]