Aarlanderveen

W.M.C. Regt's KERKGESCHIEDENIS: DE HERVORMDE KERK TE AARLANDERVEEN IN DE NAVORSCHER, vol. 50 (Zalt-Bommel: H.J. van de Garde, 1908, p. 209), reports a baptismal font of the 15th century installed in the new Aarlanderveen church of the same period [that church replaced an earlier one and it would itself be re-built in 1905]. The entry for this church in the Rijksmonumenten.nl [https://rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/7515/hervormde-kerk/aarlanderveen/] [accessed 9 November 2021] reports a late-Gothic stone baptismal font used as support ["een stenen laatgotisch doopvont, gebruikt als voet voor de preekstoel"] for the late-17th century wooden pulpit. Pol Herman notes sent to BSI (e-mail of 9 November 2021): "Source : Monumenten in Nederland. Zuid-Holland, Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist / Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle 2004. It is not known what the first church building in Aarlanderveen looked like. It may have been a simple rectangular wooden building with a narrowed choir. It may have been enlarged and built of stone in the course of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. In the 15th century a new church was built which was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. In 1581, pastor Johan Adriaenszoon van 's Gravenhage is forced to hand over the church located in the Dorpsstraat to the Reformed. Around 1655 Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten made two paintings of the church building. After renovations and repairs over more than two centuries, the church building was demolished in 1904. The current church was built on the same site in 1905. A number of interior pieces from the old church were relocated. It concerns the pulpit with back wall and baptismal fence, manufactured in 1664, and a number of benches or parts thereof. The baptismal font, probably from the middle of the fifteenth century, also found a new place in the church. However, the original function was lost. It was used as a foot for the pulpit."