Rheden (Gelderland)

A Bentheim font reported in the garden of the 'Noorse Huisje', in Landgoed Heuven. Pol Herman communicated the following to BSI (e-mail of 27 November 2021): one source "Voorloopige Lijst der Nederlandsche Monumenten van Geschiedenis en Kunst, deel IV: De Provincie Gelderland, opgemaakt en uitgegeven door de Rijkscommissie tot het opmaken en uitgeven van een Inventaris en eene Beschrijving van de Nederlandsche Monumenten van Geschiedenis en Kunst. Utrecht (Oosthoek), 1917: 170)". However, writes Pol Herman, the following document tells another story: De geschiedenis van de Oude of Pancratiuskerk te Brummen in beeld, by Rien Oosterveen: Until the renovation of 1937, a third baptismal font stood in the church. The Chronicle of the Historical Society in Utrecht writes in 1858: Baptismal font at Brummen. According to Mr. Baron van Ittersum, the upper rim has suffered very much, as having served from time immemorial to sharpen shovels, axes and other tools. In 1848 or 1849 this piece was found behind a barn on the Wierse, estate of the van Heeckeren family, located in the county of Zutphen between Vorden and Ruurloo. It is impossible to trace from where or how it came, much less in which church she stood. The font is hewn in one piece of Bentheimer stone, as far as can be seen. In the middle of the bowl is an iron bolt, of which Z.H.G.W. cannot define the use. The shape is round, just like the thinner foot, which is reinforced by four consoles. During the renovation of 1937, this baptismal font was donated to the Würfbain family, residents of the De Heuven estate in Rheden, where it now serves as a planter in the garden of the Norwegian cottage. Pol Herman futher informs that there is a drawing of the font in the Chronicle of the Historical Society in Utrecht 1858 [cf. ImagesArea], where the font is labelled 'Brummer', but the drawing does not match other images for Brmmer in BSI; a recent(?) photograph of the Rheden font matches it, though [cf. ImagesArea].