Feerwerd
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk van Feerwerd"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hardscarf, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a 18 September 2010 digital photograph by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_van_Feerwerd.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2021]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk van Feerwerd"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hardscarf, 2010
Image Source: 18 September 2010 digital photograph by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feerwerd_-_kerk_-_aanzicht_naar_het_oosten.jp] [accessed 31 October 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the plinth of the former baptismal font in the foreground, showing the drain hole clearly visible in the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Westfälisches Museum für Archäeologie, Münster, 1980
Image Source: digital image of a 1980 B&W photograph by the Westfälisches Museum für Archäeologie, Münster, reproduced in J.W. Boersma [25078-Article Text-29227-1-10-20161025.pdf] [accessed 31 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font - plinth
Scene Description: the excavated plinth of the baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Hovinga, 2021
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Jan Hovinga, in J.W. Boersma [25078-Article Text-29227-1-10-20161025.pdf] [accessed 31 October 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: a virtual reconstruction of what the interior could have looked like [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Westfälisches Museum für Archäeologie, Münster, 1980
Image Source: digital image of a B&W reconstrucion photograph by M. Schneider, in the Westfälisches Museum für Archäeologie, Münster, reproduced in J.W. Boersma
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23498FEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Jacobuskerk [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Valgeweg 3, 9892 PD Feerwerd, Nederlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Groningen
Directions to Site: Located off S and W of the N361, in the municipality of Westerkwartier, 12-13 km NW of Groningen
Font Location in Church: [originally inside the church, at the W end of the nave]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: similar plinth found at Spijk
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 13thC church, first documente 1283; modified 15th, 17thC; renovated 1859; restored 1992-1993
Font Notes:
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Lower base or plinth of a late-Gothic / 15th-century? Reported and illustrated in J.W. Boersma's EEN DOOPVONTBASEMENT IN DE KERK V AN FEERWERD: EEN BELANGRIJK ARCHEOLOGISCH-LITURGISCH FENOMEEN [25078-Article Text-29227-1-10-20161025.pdf] [accessed 31 October 2021] as the three-step plinth excavated during the restoration of the church in 1992 from the west end of the nave; Boersma shows two photographs of the interior [cf. ImagesArea] showing 1)the view of the excavated interior in 1980, and 2) a virtual reconstruction of the interior as it could have been originally, font and all.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.306489, 6.465297
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 18′ 23.36″ N, 6° 27′ 55.07″ E
UTM: 32U 331118 5909362