Stevensweert
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Results: 9 records
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon
Scene Description: foxy-looking but the forked tongue, wings and tail give its true identity away
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2007 by Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 39 January 2017)
design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: beneath the head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2007 by Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 39 January 2017)
design element - motifs - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2007 by Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 39 January 2017)
human figure - head - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2007 by Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 39 January 2017)
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the damage at opposite ends of the rim and two inserted plugs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2007 by Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Joost Limburg (e-mail of 39 January 2017)
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Microtoerisme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2012 by Microtoerisme [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juli_2012_Stevensweert_068.JPG] [accessed 31 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alupus, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2011 by Alupus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Stefan_in_Stevensweert_I.jpg] [accessed 31 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diane Nieuwold, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2021 by Diane Nieuwold, in Kerkfotografie.nl [https://kerkfotografie.nl/sint-stephanus-stevensweert/] [accessed 8 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diane Nieuwold, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2021 by Diane Nieuwold, in Kerkfotografie.nl [https://kerkfotografie.nl/sint-stephanus-stevensweert/] [accessed 8 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 20920STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint Stefanuskerk, Stevensweert
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Jan van Steffeswertplein 3, Stevensweert, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located on an island in the Meuse, SW of Maasbracht, SE of Kessenich, NNE of Maastricht, in the municipality of Maasgouw
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his help in documenting this font, and to Pastoor L. Creemers of the Parochiefederatie Maasbracht and for the photographs of the font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Mosan type consisting of a round slightly tapering basin decorated with four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles of the upper rim, the sides between them decorated with vegetal or animal motifs, one of which an anatomically-challenged dragon with a foxy-looking head; the upper rim shows evidence of damage at opposite ends obviously related to stone breakage due to metal staples of an old cover; there are also two plugs visible in the upper rim; on a single round pedestal base, although the original is most likely to have been a five-support base, as most of these fonts originally were. Font cover of metal, low-dome shape with fish finial; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.131944, 5.844444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 55″ N, 5° 50′ 40″ E
UTM: 31U 699010 5668345
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dome with fish finial; appears modern