Stavoren

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animal - mammal - head

Scene Description: Image courtesy of the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Image Source: digital photograph/image provided by Ilse Slap, the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum (e-mail of 29 November 2021)

animal - mammal - head

Scene Description: Image courtesy of the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Image Source: digital photograph/image provided by Ilse Slap, the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum (e-mail of 29 November 2021)

cleric - bishop - head - wearing mitre

Scene Description: Image courtesy of the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Image Source: digital photograph/image provided by Ilse Slap, the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum (e-mail of 29 November 2021)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken November 1977 by A.J. (Ton) van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuid-oost_gevel_-_Stavoren_-_20204901_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the modern font in the foreground, right side

Image Source: B&W photograph taken March 1959 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Stavoren_-_20204898_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font and cover

Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken March 1959 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Stavoren_-_20204898_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

view of font

Scene Description: Image courtesy of the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Image Source: digital photograph/image provided by Ilse Slap, the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Loan Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum (e-mail of 29 November 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 20331STA

Museum and Inventory Number: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Bruikleen Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Nicolaaskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Voorstraat 69, Stavoren, Netherlands -- Fries Museum address: Wilhelminaplein 92, 8911 BS Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Tel.: +31 58 255 5500

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Friesland

Directions to Site: Located 5 km S of Hindeloopen, in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1300-1399?

Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and to Ilse Stap, for their help in documenting this font and their photograph

Church Notes: original church unknown, probably 11thC; present mid-19thC replaced 16thC building; restored 2010

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in the Fries Museum records as the surviving basin of a sandstone baptismal dated 1300-1399 from the church at Stavoren. The owner [=Eigenaar] is given as Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Bruikleen Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, with ref. no. B1947-033. The object consists of a crudely-shaped basin decorated with several deeply carved heads; one appears to be a bishop wearing a mitre, with animal heads on his right and his left [NB: we have no access to the other sides of the basin]; there is still part of a round moulding left around the bottom of the basin; stands on a plain round pedestal base that may or may not be the original. Two conflicting sources on a Stavoren font are reported to BSI by Pol Herman in an e-mail communication (11 November 2021): 1)an article about the old baptismal fonts of Friesland reports that of the approximately 300 old fonts in Friesland, only 8 have survived the reformation; on page 207 is a picture of the "baptismal font" of Stavoren, but on page 202, footnote 28, it is called a "holy water font" of Stavoren, now at the kerkmuseum of Jannum. 2) In the book DE GIDS, JAARGANG 18, 1854, it is noted that a baptismal font from Stavoren, probably one of the oldest that survived in our country, has been added to the collection of the Mauritshuis at 's Gravenhage, thanks to the efforts of late professor Reuvens..

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.882131, 5.360273

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 52′ 55.67″ N, 5° 21′ 36.98″ E

UTM: 31U 658818 5861768

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: round