Steenwijksmoer

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms Katholieke kerk in Steenwijksmoer"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 February 2012 by Oudehampsink [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Fransiscus_in_Steenwijksmoer.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Interieur van de kerk in Steenwijksmoer"

Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2019 by Jacob Ydema [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overzichtsfoto_Steenwijksmoer.jpg] [accesed 16 December 2021]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph in Jan van Dongen Jr., in Van Bouwen en Sieren, No. 15 (August 1932): 231 [Steenwijksmoer.pdf] [accessed 16 December 2021]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: source not recorded; image supplied by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the baptistery chapel: the basin is the original but the base is modern, much in the fashion of the baptistery itself

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Jan van Dongen Jr., in Van Bouwen en Sieren, No. 15 (August 1932): 231 [Steenwijksmoer.pdf] [accessed 16 December 2021]

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 23598STE

Church/Chapel: Rooms Katholieke Sint-Franciscuskerk te Steenwijksmoer [original church unknown]

Church Patron Saints: St. Francis of Assisi

Church Location: Kerkweg 1, 7741 PJ Coevorden, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Drenthe

Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the N377-N34 crossroads, 2-3 km W of Coevorden, about 55 km NNW of Enschede

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval

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

Church Notes: present church 1931-1932 -- listed [Rijksmonument no. 468597]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font noted and illustrated by Jan van Dongen Jr. in the entry for this church in Van Bouwen en Sieren, No. 15 (August 1932): 226-233 [Steenwijksmoer.pdf] [accessed 16 December 2021]: "De doopvont bestaat uiteen kalksteenen bekken dat eenige jaren ineen paardenstal doorbracht, we lieten het netjes opknappen, metselden er van staalblauwe Groninger steen een voetje onder en de loodgieter van het werk (J, Vriend) dreef de roodkoperen kap, dezelfde dreef ook het waterreservoir en morschbakje van het lavabo." The entry for this modern church in Orgels in Drenthe [https://www.orgelsindrenthe.nl/nederlands/steenmoer-kerk.html] [accessed 16 December 2021] reports a font in it that used to serve as an animal trough. The font basin, made of limestone and octagonal in shape, is said to have served as a horse trough but one of the sources noted that services in Coevorden were held for a time in a horse stable while the church was being reconstructed [source: uncorroborated]. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 29 June 2022) notes: "The basin of the baptismal font was taken from a local farm , where it served in the stable as feeding through for the horse. It was undated and the provenance is unknown. As the architect Jan van Dongen describes in 1932, the basin was heavily restored, and therefore it will remain undatable."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.6703, 6.698731

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 40′ 13.08″ N, 6° 41′ 55.43″ E

UTM: 32U 344398 5838080

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: dome with cross finial