Wier

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken April 1959 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_-_Wier_-_20255561_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken April 1959 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Wier_-_20255563_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken April 1959 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Wier_-_20255562_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Doopvont uit de kerk te Wier [...] zandsteen [...] 1510 - 1529 [...] 51.0 cm, 95.0 cm"

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Image Source: digital image of a document in the Fries Museum [https://collectie.friesmuseum.nl/?diw-id=tresoar_friesmuseum_QB00428A] [accessed 13 June 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20330WIE
Museum and Inventory Number: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk Sint-Ioannis [now 'Ioannis Theater Tsjerke Wier']
Church Location: Tsjerkepaed 24, Wier (gem. Menameradiel / Menaldumadeel), Netherlands -- Fries Museum address: Wilhelminaplein 92, 8911 BS Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Tel.: +31 58 255 5500
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Friesland
Directions to Site: Located in the muinicipality of Menameradiel / Menaldumadeel, between road N393 (N and W) and the N383 (E), WNW of Leeuwarden
Font Location in Church: Located beneath the tower ca. 1881
Date: [ca. 1510-1529?]
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and to Ilse Stap, for their help in documenting this font. We are also grateful to Joost Limburg for his help documenting this font
Church Notes: original wooden church replaced by stone church late-12thC; tower and interior 19thC; restored 2012; owned by the Stichting Alde Fryske Tsjerken; known as 'Ioannis Theater Tsjerke Wier' and available for rent as venue
Listed in the Fries Museum records as a baptismal font of sandstone, dated 1510-1529, originally from the church at Wier. The font appears to have been still in the church, beneath the tower, ca. 1881; it was later omved to the Fries [then Friesch] Museum in nearby Leeuwarden. The former church is now used as a hall run by the Stichting Alde Fryske Tsjerken [http://aldefrysketsjerken.nl/index.php?saftid=saft|c6e41166-d225-433d-8adf-4e9f605a41d6] [accessed 3 February 2016]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.251944, 5.624167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 15′ 7″ N, 5° 37′ 27″ E
UTM: 31U 675065 5903511

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 51 cm* [given as "breedte"]
Notes on Measurements: * Fries Museum, Leeuwarden