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Scene Description: basin of the old stone font originally from Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk being used as planter in a garden [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a 13 August 1976 B&W photograph in the Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode [provided by Pol Herman]

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Scene Description: basin of the old stone font originally from Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk seen here with its owner at the time [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the 21 July 1987 of PZC, provided by Pol Herman

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: basin of the old stone font originally from Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk being used as planter in a garden [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 13 August 1976 B&W photograph in the Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode, provided by Pol Herman]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: basin of the old stone font originally from Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk seen here with its owner at the time [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph in the 21 July 1987 of PZC, provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin in context

Scene Description: basin of the old stone font originally from Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk being used as planter in a garden [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - tower

Scene Description: Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk; the view is probably of the east side of the tower, the side originally opening to the nave

Image Source: digital photograph 11 June 2010 by bertknot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_Sint-Lievensmonstertoren.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zierikzee (Nederland): Gasthuiskerk"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2019 by Marc Ryckaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zierikzee_Gasthuiskerk_R01.jpg] [accessed 9 December 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Afbeelding van de Sint-Lievensmonsterkerk te Zierikzee (C) met links van het kerkgebouw de toren zoals die in werkelijkheid gebouwd is (B) en helemaal links de toren zoals die eruit had moeten zien als de bouw voltooid zou zijn geweest (A). Rechtsboven het wapen van Zeeland. Daaronder het wapen van Zierikzee geflankeerd door een meerman en -vrouw met daaronder de opdracht, een vers over de kerk en de legenda A-C. Daaronder een plattegrond van de kerk en de toren ('Grondt vande Monster Kerck ende Thoren tot Ziericzee')."

Image Source: digital image of a 8 August 1657 anonymous engraving in the Rijksmuseum [http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.670754] [accessed 9 December 2021]

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view of church interior - tower - detail

Scene Description: Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk: interior of the surviving tower

Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2015 by Ben Bender [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zierikzee,_Netherlands_-_panoramio_(21).jpg] [accessed 9 December 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zierikzee N.H.Beuze-of Gasthuiskerk-Doopvont" -- the modern wooden font in Gasthuiskerk

Image Source: digital photograph 7 August 2008 by Hans1967 [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Zierikzee_N.H.Beuze-of_Gasthuiskerk-Doopvont.JPG] [accessed 9 December 2021]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the 18thC(?) Lutherse kerk Zierikzee: the little basin claimed [?] to be an early baptismal font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Feijter [page of newspaper provided by Pol Herman]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23589ZIE

Church/Chapel: Gasthuiskerk [aka Kleine Kerk] [originally from Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk]

Church Patron Saints: [original dedication St. Livinus]

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for Sint-Lievens tower] Kerkplein 2, 4301 EE Zierikzee, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Zeeland

Directions to Site: The surviving tower of Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk is located off (S) the N59,on the SE of the island, NW of Antwerp

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

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: Sint-Livens-Monsterkerk was an original church of early-14thC(?); collegiate by 1378; reformed 1576; only the mid-15thC tower remains [now free-standing] of the original Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk, the rest destroyed by fire on 1832; the tower is listed [Rijksmonument 40635] -- Gasthuiskerk became a chapel in the 15thC; reformed 1587; much modified since;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The basin of a baptismal font said to be originally from the Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk in Zierikzee, claimed by some sources to be made of Bentheimer sandstone. Pol Herman, in a communication to BSI (e-mail of 2 December 2021) provided the following information: Source : various articles in local newspapers. 1987 : At the beginning of this year, a medieval baptismal font was placed in the church just in front of the baptismal garden. Hewn from Bentheimer stone, it has a traditional design for the Middle Ages, round with an octagonal finish at the top. This baptismal font is said to have come from the Sint-Lievens-Monsterkerk that burned down in 1832. The story goes that it later ended up in a bakery, where the baker used it as a mortar. He crushed the almonds in it with a heavy stone. When the bakery was transferred, the baptismal font came into the possession of Marinus van Felius, a gardener and florist in the Paardenstraat at the time. It was first used as a flower box and later it served as a swimming bowl for goldfish. Felius' family determined that the baptismal font had to be returned to the Reformed Church at a later date. It was removed from the garden in 1985. Because the new church building is no longer owned by the municipality, the baptismal font, with the knowledge of Felius' family, now ended up in the Gasthuiskerk. The support of the basin, made in natural stone, has been completely selflessly manufactured by a local stone mason. Quite apart from the question of whether this historical object, in itself valuable, is located in the most suitable place here, it is a pity that a more suitable material was not chosen for the support -- and comment: "If the font is made of Bentheimer stone (as several authors state), then it is certainly of a totally different style than the usual Bentheimer fonts." Also, it is far outside the distribution area of Bentheimer fonts. There is also a modern wooden font in this church [cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.650278, 3.914444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 39′ 1″ N, 3° 54′ 52″ E

UTM: 31U 563265 5722538

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining