Vijlen / Viele / Vielen / Ville

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design element - motifs - circle - 12

three large circles on each side
Scene Description: three large circles on each side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

flat and stylised, below each of the four heads
Scene Description: flat and stylised, below each of the four heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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human figure - head - 4

one of the four
Scene Description: one of the four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of base

the modern base; the design is faithful to the one typical of the original Mosan fonts
Scene Description: the modern base; the design is faithful to the one typical of the original Mosan fonts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of church exterior

the modern church of Molenberg, of 1926
Scene Description: the modern church of Molenberg, of 1926
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of church exterior in context

the 19thC church at Vijlen [the medieval one was demolished about the time of the construction of this one]
Scene Description: the 19thC church at Vijlen [the medieval one was demolished about the time of the construction of this one]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto66, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Roberto66 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Martinuskerk_Vijlen.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

the 19thC church at Vijlen -- showing the modern font and cover in the north aisle, and the modern stoup at the west end of the centre aisle
Scene Description: the 19thC church at Vijlen -- showing the modern font and cover in the north aisle, and the modern stoup at the west end of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2004 by IJ.Th. Heins, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_het_noordwesten_met_links_het_orgel_-_Vijlen_-_20378401_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

the 19thC church at Vijlen
Scene Description: the 19thC church at Vijlen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2004 by IJ.Th. Heins, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_het_westen_-_Vijlen_-_20378402_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of font and cover

the reconstructed font; originally from Vijlne, now in Molenberg
Scene Description: the reconstructed font; originally from Vijlne, now in Molenberg
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2007, in the Stichting Databank Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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view of stoup in context

the 19thC church at Vijlen -- showing the modern stoup at the west end of the nave
Scene Description: the 19thC church at Vijlen -- showing the modern stoup at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken March 1971 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Vijlen_-_20242373_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2017]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 20880VIJ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint-Martinuskerk [old church; demolished 19thC]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: address in Vijlen: Vijlenberg 72, 6294 AZ Vijlen, Netherlands -- address in Molenberg: Verschijning van de Onbevlekte Maagd, G. Bruningstraat BIJ 2, 6416 EB, Molenberg, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Vijlen is located in the municipality of, and NW of, Vaals, SSW of Heerlen, ENE across the border from Aachen, in Zuid-Limburg
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Roermond
Font Location in Church: [originally from the old church, later moved to Molenberg]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original church at Vijlne said to have been founded by St. Clodulfus in the 7thC; medieval church demolished 19thC; new church 1860-1879
Font Notes:
A baptismal font originally from Vijlen is noted in the Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandse Monumenten (vol. VIII, 1926) as having been moved to a church in the modern mining town of Molenberg, in the municipality of Heerlen. According to the Kerkgebouwen in Limburg website [http://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/molenberg/verschijning-van-de-onbevlekte-maagd] [accessed 26 January 2017] a new church was built in Molenberg in 1926 [the town itself dates only from 1916], and the old font was moved to its new home there.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.787739, 5.963144
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 15.86″ N, 5° 57′ 47.32″ E
UTM: 31U 708851 5630407