Schinnen / Schinne / Scinne / Sjènne / Skines
Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
Results: 16 records
animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth
Scene Description: several on this side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
design element - motifs - interlace - linked palmettes
Scene Description: seen here on the right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
design element - motifs - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: one of them is a modern replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk, Schinnen, Limburg, Nederland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 April 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schinnen-Kerk_(4).JPG] [accessed 30 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk, Schinnen, Limburg, Nederland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 April 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schinnen-Kerk_(2).JPG] [accessed 30 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font - upper view
Scene Description: showing the removed cover on the ground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Monique Winkens, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Monique Winkens, in the Parish web site [www.parochieschinnen.nl/fotogalerij-kerk.html] [accessed 28 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: showing the insert basin with hinged cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack Honings, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph August 2023 by Jack Honings
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20321SCH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Dionysiuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: Deken Keulenplein 2, 6365 BJ Schinnen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located off the N582, near Puth, NE of Maastricht, NW of Aachen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [altered font] [compositefont]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: the font at Wolvertem, Belgium? [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] and to Pol Hermanfor their help in documenting this font. We are also grateful to Jack Honings, deacon of the parish federation Beekdaelen, for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: Carolingian foundations discovered beneath the church; later building of 11thC; present church originally 12thC, with 14thC expansion; again 1679; present tower 1829; full restoration 1916; again 1970s
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of limestone noted with measurements in Ligtenberg (1915), who reports a modern base. Noted in Monumenten in Nederland. Limburg. Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg (Zeist / Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle 2003: 319). The font is typical of the Mosan type, a cylindrical basin with four human heads [cf. infra] set at 90-degree angles on the upper rim, the heads 'supported' by wide leaf-like motifs below; the basin sides between the heads are decorated with well-rendered foliage interlaces (linked palmettes, linked circles with lion (?) heads in the links); the modern base [cf. supra] is faithful to the traditional design, a broad central shaft with four outer colonnettes, all with moulded bases; the lower base has also four leaves as spurs at the angles. A wide wood platform supports a small brass basin in it, a basin used for baptisms now, the dome-shaped cover of which is hinged to and fits that brass basin; the finial is the orb-and-cross often found on these covers.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023) acknowledges a set of photographs of this font received from Jack Honings, deacon of the parish federation Beekdaelen, and notes: "Only the Romanesque Mosan basin is original. It was found at a local farm, where it served as water trough for the cattle. One head was missing, and has been replaced. According to literature from the beginning of the 20th century, the base lay in the garden of the vicarage. Some of the decorations resemble those of the font at Wolvertem (Belgium)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.941669, 5.88835
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 30.01″ N, 5° 53′ 18.06″ E
UTM: 31U 702911 5647311
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 39 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 80 x 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ligtenberg (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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.