Broekhuizen / Broeckhuysen / Brozeke

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Scene Description: flat moulding, scotia, roll moulding, another roll moulding

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043569_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043569_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043569_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © China Crisis, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 July 2010 by China Crisis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StNicolaaskerk.Broekhuizen.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: as it was in 1926; the church would be blown up by th retreating German army in 1944

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043566_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the church interior in 1952, re-built after being blown up by the German army in 1944

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1952, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043565_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043569_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: as it was in 1926; the church would be blown up by th retreating German army in 1944

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1926, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Broekhuizen_-_20043569_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20344BRO
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholiek Sint-Nicolaaskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Hoogstraat 21, 5872 AC Broekhuizen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located near Broekhuizenvorst, 14 km N of Venlo, in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font
Church Notes: church documented 1484 but believed to be earlier; damaged by fire and restored in the 19thC; blown up by retiring German army 1944; re-built 1952
Noted in the Kerkgedouwen in Limburg: baptismal font of the 14th century; only two human heads remain of the four original ones that decorated the upper basin side at 90-degree angles. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with human heads on alternate sides [two of them now missing] and three parallel mouldings between them; the pedestal base is also octagonal with a splight sply at its lower end; the lower base is octagonal as well, with spurs on alternate sides. The metal font cover is modern [19th-century?] a low dome with graded mouldings and cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.485964, 6.163997
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 9.47″ N, 6° 9′ 50.39″ E
UTM: 32U 303103 5707682

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,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]