Sint-Oedenrode No. 2 / Rooi / Sint-Oda's-Rode

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Standing permission
Results: 6 records
human figure - head - male
human figure - head - male
human figure - head - male
human figure - head - male - bearded
view of basin - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 20505OED
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Martinuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Heuvel 1, 5492 AC Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: Located in the Meierij of 's-Hertogenbosch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Fulda, Horssen, Middelbeers, etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his photographs and his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original may have been 11thC Oda church; re-built 1494; tower collapsed 1801, church demolished; re-built 1807; present church 1915, renovated 1990s
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The DBNL [www.dbnl.org/tekst/sten009monu02_01/sten009monu02_01_0158.php] [accessed 21 April 2016] entry for this church notes: "De R.K. St.-Martinuskerk (Heuvel 1) is een driebeukige neogotische kruisbasiliek, gebouwd in 1912 naar plannen van W.Th. van Aalst. Van de gotische, aan St. Oda gewijde kapittelkerk ter plaatse werd het uit 1498 daterende koor opgenomen; dit koor heeft tufstenen speklagen. De rest van die kerk was al in 1808 door een nieuwe kerk vervangen, die op zijn beurt voor het huidige gebouw plaats maakte. De kerk bevat een 13de-eeuwse hardstenen doopvont en een 14de-eeuws exemplaar, dat nu als wijwaterbak dienst doet." This entry identifies two old baptismal fonts in this re-built church: one 13th-century and a second one, from the 14th century, now serving as holy-water stoup. The one we have been able to have [photographic] access to consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles; it is raised on a simple stone base of modern design. There is something odd about the carved heads, which they appear to be a modern rendition of old models, but there are old metal staples in some of them; are they re-carved?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.563283,
5.460719
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 33′ 47.82″ N,
5° 27′ 38.59″ E
UTM: 31U 670557 5715337
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern