Sint-Oedenrode No. 2 / Rooi / Sint-Oda's-Rode
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human figure - head - male
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human figure - head - male
human figure - head - male
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20505OED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Fulda, Horssen, Middelbeers, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Martinuskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
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
Church Address: Kerkplein 47A, 5492 AW Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 413 477 741
Site Location: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N637, W of the A50, 18-20 km N of Eindhoven, about 22 km SSE of 's-Hertogenbosch
Font Notes:
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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?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his photographs and his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 670557 5715337
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.563283, 5.460719
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 33′ 47.82″ N, 5° 27′ 38.59″ E
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