Meeden / de Maiden / Meden / Mieden

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-regardant - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Justin Kroesen

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design element - patterns - fan-frieze

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"

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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: Click to view font notes

[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]