Brunssum / Broensem / Brunsham

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design element - motifs - 4

Scene Description: replacing the heads used on older fonts

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1957 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Brunssum_-_20044546_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1957 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Brunssum_-_20044546_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1957 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Brunssum_-_20044546_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1957 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_-_Brunssum_-_20044546_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Scene Description: interior of one of the now demolished churches in Brunssum -- Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Gregoriuskerk: Interieur, overzicht vanuit het middenschip naar de preekstoel - Brunssum, Dorpstraat - Gregorius de Grote (1919 - 1964) - inmiddels afgebroken".

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Image Source: undated B&W photograph taken by C. Steenbergh, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_vanuit_het_middenschip_naar_de_preekstoel_-_Brunssum_-_20044548_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: as shown in the baptistery of the now demolished church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20338BRU
Church/Chapel: Gregoriuskerk / Kerk St. Gregorius de Grote [Voormalige Gregorius de Grotekerk; orig. church demolished]
Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great
Church Location: [the new church: Kerkstraat 125, Brunssum, Netherlands]
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located E of Schinnen, between Onderbanken (N) and Heerlen (S)
Font Location in Church: Inside the new Gregoriuskerk
Date: 1672?
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: original church documented 1150; renovated and extended 1667; tower added 1698; demolished 1840; new church built soon after; redundant 1920; demolished 1996; another church with the same dedication built 1961
A somewhat awkward descendant from the classical fonts of the Namurois, but by this time it has lost the basin angle heads and acquired too many confusing turns; octagonal basin with 90-degrree angle protrusions and torus-scotia-torus decoration in between, plain rounded almost cylindrical underbowl; pedestal base of several parts, top-down: plain cylinder, patterned centre ring moulding, octagonal moulding, octagonal stem section, graded octagonal moulding, octagonal lower base with stops at four corners to make it square at the very bottom. Awkward. Metal [brass?] font cover, two-stage dome with ord-and-cross finial. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.949861, 5.970828
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 59.5″ N, 5° 58′ 14.98″ E
UTM: 31U 708667 5648452

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: two-stage dome with orb-and-cross finial; appears modern; 19thC?