Middelbeers
Image copyright © Parochiesecretariaat de Beerzen, 2016
Image received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 17 June 2016)
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Het Oude St. Willibrorduskerk
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JHGS, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 August 2009 by JHGS [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelbeers_-_Willibrordusstraat_25_-_Oude_St._Willibrorduskerk.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: De nieuwe Sint-Willibrorduskerk
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JHGS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2010 by JHGS [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelbeers_-_Willibrordusstraat_16_-_St._Willibrorduskerk.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: though undated this photograph must be of about the same period as the view of the west end of the nave, ca. 1955
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inwendig_-_Middelbeers_-_20154008_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![there is a font, only partially visible here, at the far [west] end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160618021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: there is a font, only partially visible here, at the far [west] end, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2015
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1955 by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Middelbeers_-_20153994_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover is standing on its side, right behind the font, against the wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochiesecretariaat de Beerzen, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 November 2010 by the Parochiesecretariaat de Beerzen
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 17 June 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20622MID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Oude St. Willibrorduskerk [font now in the new church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Willibrord [aka Willibrordus]
Church Location: Willibrordusstraat 25
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Oirschot
Font Location in Church: Font is located in the new parish church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Fulda, Horssen, Schin-op-gueul, etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] [accessed 18 June 2016] for his help in documenting this font, and to the Parochiesecretariaat de Beerzen for the photograph of the font
Church Notes: church ca. 1400 built on the site of an earlier church
Font Notes:
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The DBNL [www.dbnl.org/tekst/_voo016voor09_01/_voo016voor09_01_0102.php] [accessed 18 June 2016] informs that the old lower base [or plinth?] is still in the old church ["Granieten doopvont (XIII), welker kuip is versierd met vier koppen, op modernen gemetselden voet; de oude zuilvoet bevindt zich nog in de oude kerk."] Noted in [www.cubra.nl/tilburgsdialect/pierrevanbeek/heemkunde03beerzen.htm] [accessed 18 June 2016] where it is compared to similar fonts at Fulda, Horssen and St.-Oedenrode. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin plain but for the four human heads set at 90-degree angles; a staple on the side of the basin is used to lock the font cover; the basin is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base, probably not original. The wooden font cover is modern. [NB: though the material of the font is described above as granite it appears to be a greyish limestone].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.464207, 5.245745
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 27′ 51.14″ N, 5° 14′ 44.68″ E
UTM: 31U 655996 5703840
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining, but there is a baptismal dish insert in use
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]