Utrecht No. 3

Image copyright © Leonid Maximenkov, 2019

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 June 2019)

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nationaal Archief, 1968

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W negative taken 28 December 1968, photographer unknown, now in the Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief [www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/fotocollectie/detail/ab5966c8-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84] [accessed 19 June 2019]

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design element - motifs - vine - palmette

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nationaal Archief, 1968

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W negative taken 28 December 1968, photographer unknown, now in the Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief [www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/fotocollectie/detail/ab5966c8-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84] [accessed 19 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: The gap between the tower on the right and the chancel on the left is permanent; the nave was lost to a storm in 1674 and never re-built, which left the tower detached from the body of the church by the by the space now called locally 'Domplen'

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH, Netherlands Institute of Military History), 2017

Image Source: digital image of a Gelatin negative glass plate, B&W, taken between 1920 and 1940 [Nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl object 2011-0518] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NIMH_-_2011_-_0518_-_Aerial_photograph_of_Utrecht,_The_Netherlands_-_1920_-_1940.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font of 1978

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leonid Maximenkov, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2019 by Leonid Maximenkov

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Doop Prins Johan Friso in Domkerk te Utrecht bij het doopvont v.l.n.r. Prins Claus , Prinses Beatrix met Prins Johan Friso en ds. Kater".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nationaal Archief, 1968

Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative taken 28 December 1968, photographer unknown, now in the Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief [www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/fotocollectie/detail/ab5966c8-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84] [accessed 19 June 2019]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: detail of a photograph taken during the baptism of prince Johan Friso; the child reaching into the old font is prince Willem Alexander

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nationaal Archief, 1968

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W negative taken 28 December 1968, photographer unknown, in the Fotocollectie Anefo, Bestanddeelnummer : 921-9738, Nationaal Archief [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doop_van_prins_Johan_Friso_in_de_Domkerk_te_Utrecht._Vlnr_koningin_Juliana,_prin,_Bestanddeelnr_921-9738.jpg] [accessed 19 June 2019]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font of 1978

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leonid Maximenkov, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2019 by Leonid Maximenkov

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 June 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22196UTR
Museum and Inventory Number: Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
Church/Chapel: Domkerk St. Maartens
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are given for the cathedral site] Achter de Dom 1, 3512 JN Utrecht, Netherlands -- Tel.: 030 231 04 03
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Utrecht
Directions to Site: The cathedral is in the old town centre, between the A2 (W) and the A28 (E)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Utrecht [medieval]
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum? cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font, Berge b. Type II [Drake]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Leonid Maximenkow for his photograph of the modern font in the cathedral
Church Notes: first Merovingian chapel of ca. 630; destryed by Frisians soon thereafter; second chapel was dedicated to St Martib; destroyed by Normans in thr 9thC; re-built 10thC; became cathedral of the Diocese of Utrecht; destroyed and re-built through the centuries; Protestant since 1580; nave lost to a storm 1674, never re-built, which leaves the tower detached from the body of the church by the 'Domplen'
The present baptismal font in use was made of sandstone in 1978 byTaeke Friso de Jon; it has two main scenes on its sides: one from the Old Testament, the arrival of the Israelites into the Promised land, the other from the New Testament, the Baptism of Christ in the river Jordan. It replaced an earlier font; the earlier font font of the 12th-13th century was in situ in December 1968, during the baptism of prince Johan Friso, but was moved off site by 1978 when the new font was delivered to the cathedral.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.090833, 5.121667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 27″ N, 5° 7′ 18″ E
UTM: 31U 645350 5773265