Zuidland / Drenkwaard / Westenrijk

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of the surviving fragments of the medieval baptismal font from Zuidland

Image Source: digital photograph in the Collection of the Historisch Museum Den Briel

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the museum received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 15 September 2021)

human figure - head

Scene Description: one of the surviving fragments of the medieval baptismal font from Zuidland

Image Source: digital photograph in the Collection of the Historisch Museum Den Briel

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the museum received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 15 September 2021)

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: one of the surviving fragments of the medieval baptismal font from Zuidland

Image Source: digital photograph in the Collection of the Historisch Museum Den Briel

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the museum received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 15 September 2021)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: Overzicht zuidgevel en oostgevel (opmerking: Gefotografeerd voor Monumenten In Nederland Zuid-Holland) [rijksmonument number 9414]"

Image Source: digital photograph 14 April 2003 by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzicht_zuidgevel_en_oostgevel_-_Zuidland_-_20377338_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the new font inside the restored church

Image Source: digital image of a 1977 B&W photograph by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_westen_-_Zuidland_-_20225575_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23442ZUI

Museum and Inventory Number: fragments in the Historical Museum Den Briel and Sint Catherijnekerk, Briel

Church/Chapel: Bartholomeüskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: [NB: address & coordenates for Bartholomeüskerk, Zuidland] Kerkstraat 8, 3214 AJ Zuidland, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Zuid-Holland

Directions to Site: Zuidland Dorpskerk is located in the municipality of Bernisse -- Brielle/Briel is located about 12 km NW of Zuidland

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rotterdam [formerly Middelburg and Utrecht]

Font Location in Church: some fragments [in Grote Kerk, Briel / Brielle, others in Sint Catherijnekerk]

Century and Period: 13th century [fragment], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?

Cognate Fonts: the font at Renneville, in France?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documentiong this font. We are also grateful to the Historisch Museum Den Briel for their pphotographs of the fragments

Church Notes: present church 15thC (first half); tower added ca. 1470; church building destroyed 23 June 1918 by a fire due to lightning strike

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The following information on the medieval font originally from Zuidland's Bartholomeüskerk is from Bas Molengraaf's (Archivaris Hervormde gemeente in Zuidland), 'De doopvonten in de Katholieke en Hervormde Kerk van Westenrijk-Zuidland': "History of the font: In a letter of 23 August 1958 from the Rijksdienst for the Monument Care to the guardianship of the Reformed Church of Zuidland, the Rijksdienst informs the church guardian that in the graveyard next to the southern entrance, four fragments of a late medieval hardstone baptismal font are deposited : a complete pedestal, two carved heads and a fourth fragment. These objects have been excavated during the restoration, after the fire in 1918, and were probably stored in the basement of the church, and were brought out again after pumping the basement that flooded during the storm surge disaster in 1953. They propose to preserve the objects either in the church or in a museum. The congregation has done the latter and the fragments can now be admired in Brielle. The pedestal is in the "Historical Museum Den Briel". The three head parts are exhibited in the Saint Catherine church in Brielle." [English translation courtesy of Pol Herman]. The parish church at Zuidland now uses a modern font of stone [cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.82242, 4.25971

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49' 20.7" N, 4° 15' 35.0" E

UTM: 31U 586820 5742038

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: round (with heads) - mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round