Scherpenisse

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view of base

Scene Description: The lower stone support of the 17thC wooden pulpit is the inverted base of a late-medieval baptismal font.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a July 1975 B&W photograph by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/35398/toren-hervormde-kerk/scherpenisse/#&gid=1&pid=87] [accessed 8 November 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hervormde kerk met begraafplaats te Scherpenisse (Zeeland Tholen) Margrietlaan 2 RM 35397"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hans Wareman, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2012 by Hans Wareman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RM_35397_HV_Kerk_Scherpenisse.JPG] [accessed 8 November 2021]

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view of church interior - pulpit in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: Interieur, preekstoel"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a July 1975 B&W photograph by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/35398/toren-hervormde-kerk/scherpenisse/#&gid=1&pid=87] [accessed 8 November 2021]

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view of church interior - pulpit in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: Interieur, preekstoel" -- only the upper top of the stone base is visible here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_preekstoel_-_Scherpenisse_-_20384546_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23517SCH
Church/Chapel: Hervormde Kerk Scherpenisse
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Margrietlaan 2, 4694 ET Scherpenisse, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 166 662 363
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Zeeland
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N286 [aka Poortvlietsedijk], in the municipality and about 7 km WNW of Tholen, about 40 km NNW of Antwerp
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, supporting the pulpit
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[base only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
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: present church chiefly 16thC with some remains of an earlier [13th-15thC?] church; altered 18thC; restored 1970s; renovated 2009 -- listed church [Rijksmonument ID: 35398]
The entry for this church in the Rijksmonumenten.nl [https://rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/35398/toren-hervormde-kerk/scherpenisse/] [accessed 8 November 2021] shows a stone base supporting the early-17th century wooden pulpit; that stone is actually the inverted base of a late-Gothic baotismal font. A candlestick, lectern, hourglass holder and a baptismal basin holder, all made of copper, are attached to the pulpit, but the present baptismal basin in use is made of hammered silver.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.546439, 4.106453
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 47.18″ N, 4° 6′ 23.23″ E
UTM: 31U 576723 5711174

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone