Schinnen / Schinne / Scinne / Sjènne / Skines

Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 August 2023)

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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: several on this side

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

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

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

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

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"

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]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk, Schinnen, Limburg, Nederland"

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]

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view of font

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Click to view font notes

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.