Oudewater

CC-BY-SA-4.0

Results: 8 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a February 1969 B&W photograph by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuidelijke_zijbeuk_naar_het_westen_-_Oudewater_-_20179728_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

design element - motifs - stop - 4

Scene Description: where the lower base becomas square

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of an 1857 drawing [origin unknown] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption; "3421 Oudewater, Netherlands"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 October 2015 by Ben Bender [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3421_Oudewater,_Netherlands_-_panoramio_(81).jpg] [accessed 15 November 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "De Hollandse IJssel in Oudewater." -- Grote of Sint-Michaëlskerk in the background

Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2012 by Onderwijsgek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollandse_IJssel_Oudewater_04.JPG] [accessed 15 November 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font - east side

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the south aisle, looking west

Image Source: digital image of a February 1969 B&W photograph by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuidelijke_zijbeuk_naar_het_westen_-_Oudewater_-_20179728_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 23539OUD

Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Grote of Sint-Michaëlskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Noorderkerkstraat 1, 3421 AX, Oudewater, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Utrecht

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N228, on the E shore of the Hollanse IJssel, about 12 km E of Gouda, 20 km SSW of Utrecht

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only?] [composite font], Late Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 15thC church with ca. 1300 tower; restored 1850; renovated 1960s -- listed: [Rijksmonument 32067 (kerk); 32068 (toren)]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this church in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Oudewater,_Noorder_Kerkstraat_1_-_Grote_of_Sint_Michaëlskerk] [accessed 15 November 2021] reports a stone Gothic baptismal font of the 15th century ["een natuurstenen gotische doopvont, 15de eeuw"]. Pol Herman, in a communication with BSI (e-mail of 14 November 2021) provides some information and sources: "During the restoration of the Grote or Sint-Michaelskerk in Oudewater in 1850, a beautiful octagonal bluestone baptismal font was discovered in the ground [...] the basin of a baptismal font was found under the pavement. The baptismal font originally stood in the baptistery on the west side of the church. This baptistery was demolished after the Reformation. The contours of the chapel are laid out in the pavement. [...] It is said that this remarkable baptismal font is now in the custody of the churchwarden. A laborer, kindly gave me some measurements. He could not, however, be persuaded by us to do this in Dutch measure, saying that "an old thing must also be measured with old measure."See then the result of his measurement, length is 33 Amsterdam thumbs, across the middle ; 26 ditto is the length of the water cavity; the bath has 8½ thumbs depth at the edge of the hollow and 14 thumbs in the center." Pol Herman cites sources: Kranten Streekarchief Midden-Holland, Schoonhovensche Courant | 1915 | 16 maart 1915 | pagina 2, Reformatorisch Dagblad, 08-12-2005, Ds. M. van Kooten, Doopvont als voerbak DE OPENBARE EEREDIENST DER NEDERL. HERVORMDE KERK IN De ZESTIENDE, ZEVENTIENDE EN ACHTTIENDE EEUW, DR. G. D. J. SCHOTEL, 1870. OUDEWATER EN OMTREK,GEOLOGISCH, MYTHOLOGISCH EN GESCHIEDKUNDIG GESCHETST, W. C. VAN ZIJLL, 1861, and adds: "Only the basin is original. To me the basin seems from Hainaut (Ecaussines or other quarry). They added a mosan gothic base to it."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.022364, 4.870283

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 1′ 20.51″ N, 4° 52′ 13.02″ E

UTM: 31U 628326 5765177

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal