Meeden / de Maiden / Meden / Mieden
Image copyright © Justin Kroesen, 2016
Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 May 2016)
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Justin Kroesen, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen
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design element - motifs - rope - twisted - double or braid - 2
Scene Description: two pairs framing the acanthus vine
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: with palmette and fruit motifs
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen
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design element - patterns - fan-frieze
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Justin Kroesen, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: exterieur vanuit het zuid-oosten"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken July 1936, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_vanuit_het_zuid-oosten_-_Meeden_-_20152133_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2007 by Gerardus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meeden_02.JPG] [accessed 14 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: the detached bell-tower
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2007 by Gerardus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meeden_01.JPG] [accessed 14 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the post-Reformation font, a metal (copper?) basin on a thin pedestal base can be seen on a table, to the left of the pulpit; date given in 1719 [http://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Meeden,_Kerkstraat_12_-_Hervormde_Kerk] [accessed 14 May 2016]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160514004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the post-Reformation font, a metal (copper?) basin on a thin pedestal base can be seen on a table, to the left of the pulpit; date given in 1719 [http://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Meeden,_Kerkstraat_12_-_Hervormde_Kerk] [accessed 14 May 2016]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1935, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_en_preekstoel_-_Meeden_-_20152135_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michiel van 't Einde, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 January 2016 by Michiel van 't Einde, in Reliwiki [http://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Meeden_HV_022.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - southwest corner
Scene Description: the top of the Bentheimer font is visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michiel van 't Einde, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 January 2016 by Michiel van 't Einde, in Reliwiki [http://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Meeden_HV_022.jpg] [accessed 14 May 2016]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Justin Kroesen, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 May 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20547MEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk Meeden [originally from the disappeared old earlier church]
Church Location: Kerkstraat 12, Meeden, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Groningen
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Menterwolde since 1990
Font Location in Church: Located inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge, a. Type I [Drake]
Cognate Fonts: the font at Haselüne and others of this group
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Justin Kroesen, University Museum, Bergen, Norway, for his help in documenting this font and his photograph of it
Church Notes: present church is 15thC and was probably built soon after the decision to have the church and the village moved to higher ground after 1391
Font Notes:
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[KEEP THIS BSI ENTRY HIDDEN [i.e., notBSI] UNTIL FURTHER CONFIRMATION FROM JUSTIN -- WE MAY NEED TO ERASE THE REMARK ABOUT THE WARDENS EVENTUALLY -- JUSTIN DID NOT REQUIRE THIS]
A communication (e-mail of 13 May 2016) from Dr. Justin Kroesen, University Museum, Bergen, Norway, notes: "I can also add that very recently another Romanesque font was dug out in the church at Meeden in Groningen, hitherto unpublished (I took a large series of pictures and will publish an article on it later this year in Groninger kerken). This is a remarkable survival, since it is the best preserved Bentheim font in the northern Netherlands. The church wardens are a bit secretive about it though, for reasons I do not know." A report of a church open house in Menterwolde.info [www.menterwolde.info/nieuws/meeden/gerestaureerde-dorpskerk-meeden-houdt-open-huis/] [accessed 14 May 2016] (edition 28 March 2016) reports a Bentheim baptismal font in this church; it was discovered buried in church grounds during a restoration: "Bentheimer doopvont. Tijdens de restauratie is een Bentheimer doopvont onder de vloer gevonden." The font is in excellent preservation shape, with some damage at the metal pins location on the upper rim.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.139456, 6.932165
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 8′ 22.04″ N, 6° 55′ 55.79″ E
UTM: 32U 361683 5889781
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]