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view of basin

Scene Description: the Reformation font sold in 1903; now back in the Sint-Brigittakerk at Ommen [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PKN Gemeenten Ommen, 2016

Image Source: undated B&W photograph in the PKN Gemeenten Ommen site [www.pkn-ommen.nl/images/AlgemeneInformatie/Historie/image0007.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font of unknown origin [but probably from somewhere near Lemele and Ommen] sold to the Zwolle museum

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Provinciaal Overijssels Museum, Zwolle, [s.d.]

Image Source: undated B&W photograph in the Provinciaal Overijssels Museum, Zwolle, reproduced in Schönlank-van der Wal ([2007?]: fig. 3)

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view of font

Scene Description: the tiny B&W photograph in the records at the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, [s.d.]

Image Source: B&W photograph in the records at the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Joost Limburg, who received it directly from the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

INFORMATION

FontID: 20358ZWO
Museum and Inventory Number: on loan to Sandstein Museum Bad Bentheim until 2019, from the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle [formerly Provinciaal Overijssels Museum (POM)]
Church/Chapel: [originally from Sint-Brigittakerk, Ommen?]
Church Location: Ommen Kerk: Nering Bögelstraat 1, 7731 EL Ommen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Overijssel
Directions to Site: Lemele is located 20 km NW of Almelo, in the municpality of Ommen; Ommen is off the N48-N347, E of Zwolle
Font Location in Church: [in a museum since 1937]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: Lemele has a mid-19thC church, the first ever; Lemele parishoners attended services at Ommen, which had a church dating back to 1150
Described and illustrated in Schönlank-van der Wal ([2007?]) as a Romanesque font from the second half of the thirteenth century in storage at the Provinciaal Overijssels Museum since 1937, without easy access to it; the font is much weathered; the upper rim is damaged and has traces of blue paint; the broken parts of the upper rim are probably evidence of the anchoring spots for an old font cover. Schönlank-van der Wal (ibid.) suggests similarities with the fonts at Roden, Peize and Dorkwerd, as well as the one at Vries, in the Netherlands, and those at Borsum and the Berlin Museum in Germany; she further notes that the font was found at the end of the nineteenth century near Lemele; Dr. Vitringa who later settled in Zwolle had the font for forty years until eventually sent it to the Provincial Museum Overijsseles in Zwolle. The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with two double rope mouldings, a vine with palmettes and a band of fan-frieze; raised on a round-to-square base with four couchant-regardant lions at the 90-degrees of the broad central shaft. [NB: the PKN Gemeenten Ommen site [www.pkn-ommen.nl/images/AlgemeneInformatie/Historie/image0007.jpg] [accessed 14 February 2016] informs that a baptismal font from the medieval Sint-Brigittakerk in Ommen was sold in 1903 to a merchant in Zwolle for 35 florins; it later ended in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; it was later returned to the church here; this font was the one from the Reformation, not the medieval one [cf. Images area] [="Het doopvont is in 1903 verkocht aan een Zwolse handelaar voor ƒ. 35,00 en is nu eigendom van het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam waar het jaren heeft gestaan. Maar voordat het eind 1979 hier in de kerk is teruggekomen, heeft het eerst nog enige tijd in de Ned.Herv. kerk in Diepenveen gestaan."]. [cf. Index entry for Ommen for another medieval font or stoup from Sint-Brigittakerk sold to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam]. ***2016 LOCATION: this font is on loan to the Sandstein Museum Bad Bentheim until 2019, from the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle [www.sandsteinmuseumbadbentheim.de/?page_id=456] [accessed 16 February 2016] [NB: a communication from this museum to Joost Limburg [and on to BSI] reads: Datering: Circa 1100 – 1300 Materiaal : Bentheimer zandsteen Hoogte : 93 cm. Diameter : 87 cm. Verwervingsbron : Vitringa, Dr. C.L. ( schenking ). Datum verwerving : 1937-01-01 Huidige eigenaar : VORG De Vereeniging tot beoefening van Overijsselsch Regt en Geschiedenis In bruikleen tot 2019: Museum Bad Bentheim (http://www.sandsteinmuseumbadbentheim.de/) Het vont met de poten uit een stuk steen gewerkt. De ronde rechtwandige kuip draagt een versiering van 2 gedraaide touwen, 2 maal, waartussen een wingerd rank met gestyleerde druivetrossen zich slingert. Onderaan de kuip een rand met waaiervormig ornament. Onder een insnoering 4 poten kruiselings ten opzichte van elkaar gevormd door een leeuwenlichaam, met de voorpoten tegen de kuip opstaand met omgewende uitstekende kop. Deze poten zijn sterk afgesleten. De bovenrand vertoont 5 uithollingen, 2 hiervan mogelijk voor de metalen deksel bestemd oorspr. Buiten op deze rand resten van blauwe verf. Ter hoogte van de wingerdrank een vierkant gat, waardoor een grote scherf van de kuipwand is afgestoten. Versiering in laag relief. Voetstuk vierkant."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.518611, 6.423333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 7″ N, 6° 25′ 24″ E
UTM: 32U 325177 5821843

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Schönlank-van der Wal ([2007?]: 5)

REFERENCES

Schönlank-Van Der Wal, M., "Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Gelderland", irg. 27, Bulletin Stichting Oude Gelderse Kerken, 2001, pp. blz. 3-17; r["References"]