Woudenberg

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human figure - head

the source caption reads: "Hervormde Kerk En Toren: kerk, Consollekopje", but it has been identified in one source [cf. FontNotes] as one of the four heads of the former medieval font of the church here

Scene Description: the source caption reads: "Hervormde Kerk En Toren: kerk, Consollekopje", but it has been identified in one source [cf. FontNotes] as one of the four heads of the former medieval font of the church here

Image Source: digital image of a June 1964 photograph by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk,_Consollekopje_-_Woudenberg_-_20217609_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2019]

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human figure - head - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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human figure - head - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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human figure - head - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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human figure - head - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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human figure - head - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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human figure - head - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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information

Scene Description: museum label for the human head fragment

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of base

the base of the medieval font here, according to one source [cf. FontNotes]: Outside the church is the base and column of the font, and these were used as "roepsteen" or "pierre de criée" for public announcements.

Scene Description: the base of the medieval font here, according to one source [cf. FontNotes]: Outside the church is the base and column of the font, and these were used as "roepsteen" or "pierre de criée" for public announcements.

Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2016 received from Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of base - detail

Scene Description: the damage above the foot would probably have been the location of one of four figures or animals

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: the damage above the foot would probably have been the location of one of four figures or animals

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-transfer)

view of base - detail

Scene Description: the damage above the foot would probably have been the location of one of four figures or animals

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of base in context

Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2016 received from Pol Herman

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view of base in context

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of base in context

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2013 by Jan dijkstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woudenberg._Hervormde_kerk..JPG] [accessed 20 October 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hervormde Kerk En Toren: kerk, ca.1730, nummer 1064"

Image Source: digital image of a November 1963 B&W photograph by G.Th. Delemarre of a ca. 1730 illustration, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk,_ca.1730,_nummer_1064_-_Woudenberg_-_20217603_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 20 October 2019]

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view of object

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2024 by Joost Limburg

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22407WOU

Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)

Museum and Inventory Number: a head fragment is located in the Stichting Oud Woudenberg

Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Kerk

Church Location: Middenstratt 20a, 3931 HT Woudenberg, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Utrecht

Directions to Site: Located off the N224-N226 crossroads, 8 km S of Amersfoort, 14-15 km E of Utrecht capital

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1300?

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Transitional? / Early Gothic?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bentheim font

Cognate Fonts: the font at Batenburg, Lembeck(?), Vries and other such

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg of his photographs of church, the re-used base and the fragment in the museum. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font and for the 2016 photographs of the base

Church Notes: Joost Limburg notes: "According to the official "Monumenten in Nederland" series, the village of Woudenberg dates back to the 13C. At that time the first buildings were made, including a parish church. Of the present "Hervormde Kerk" church the tower is the oldest part (15C) though it features a 13C bell."

Font Notes: Click to view

An article by Th. van Straalen, Restanten van een natuurstenendoopvont [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/211398] [accessed 20 October 2019], identifies two surviving stone fragments as the remains of a former baptismal font in the medieval church here; the two fragments are: a human head and a round stump; the head would have been one of four located at 90-degree angles on the basin, and the stump would have been the central column of the base, surrounded by four slender colonnettes also at 90-degree angles. [Straalen [cf. supra] notes that the head fragment was 17.5 cm in height and, at the time, in the possession of the Stichting Oud Woudenberg; this same author points out that the second fragment, built into the ground near the south side of the church tower, was identified as being of the same material as the head, a sandstone described as "Anröchte1" by G.A. Overeem, a sculpor with the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg te Zeist]. A later communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 22 December 2022): "Today, I received new pictures of the base of the font at Woudenberg. It is now clear to me that this is a Bentheimer font. The material cannot be “Anröchter Stein” [as claimed earlier] [...] Comparing the Woudenberg head to other Bentheimer fonts, the Woudenberg font must have been similar to Vries." Pol

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.083303, 5.412466

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 59.89″ N, 5° 24′ 44.88″ E

UTM: 31U 665298 5773050

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Bentheim)

Height of Base: 44 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 61 x 61 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Th. van Straalen [cf. FontNotes]