Huissen

Image copyright © Historische Kring Huessen, 2021

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historische Kring Huessen, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Historische Kring Huessen [https://www.huessen.nl/images/stories/OverHuissen/stadsparochiekerk_doopvont_40er_jaren_coll._g.m._600px.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historische Kring Huessen, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Historische Kring Huessen [https://www.huessen.nl/images/stories/OverHuissen/stadsparochiekerk_doopvont_40er_jaren_coll._g.m._600px.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the basin sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historische Kring Huessen, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Historische Kring Huessen [https://www.huessen.nl/images/stories/OverHuissen/stadsparochiekerk_doopvont_40er_jaren_coll._g.m._600px.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Verwoeste kerk in Huissen-Stad, 1945" -- destroyed in a May 1943 firebombing (WWII)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nico Kramer, 1945

Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph by Nico Kramer, in the Bronvermelding: Gelders Archief: 1584-1130 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verwoeste_kerk_in_Huissen,_1945.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the medieval church would be destroyed in a May 1943 firebombing (WWII)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2021

Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-May 1943] B&W photograph, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reproductie_exterieur_-_Huissen_-_20118217_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Huissen (Lingewaard) RK kerk exterieur, achterkant" [NB: the new church]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huissen_(Lingewaard)_RK_kerk_exterieur,_achterkant.JPG] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the medieval church would be destroyed in a May 1943 firebombing (WWII)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2021

Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-May 1943] B&W photograph, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reproductie_interieur_-_Huissen_-_20118220_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: Source caption: "R.K.Kerk: preekstoel" -- the 17thC(?) pulpit seen here in 1952 survived the destruction of the old church of Huissen in May 1943; the stone base of the restored pulpit looks suspiciouslu close to a font base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a 1952 B&W photograph, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preekstoel_-_Huissen_-_20118225_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font and cover seen here ca. 1920-1930; they would be destroyed in a May 1943 (WWII) firebombing

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historische Kring Huessen, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Historische Kring Huessen [https://www.huessen.nl/images/stories/OverHuissen/stadsparochiekerk_doopvont_40er_jaren_coll._g.m._600px.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Huissen - 15e eeuwsch Doopvont in de Kerk van O.L. Vrouwe ten Hemelopneming, 1920-1930"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gelders Archief, 2021

Image Source: digital image of a 1920-1930 B&W photograph [0566 - 107-0036] in the Gelders Archief [https://www.geldersarchief.nl/bronnen/archieven?mivast=37&mizig=210&miadt=37&miaet=1&micode=0566&minr=50204619&miview=inv2#inv3t2] [accessed 22 December 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23609HUI
Church/Chapel: Oude Rooms Katholieke Kerk O.L. Vrouw ten Hemelopneming [destroyed]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: [address & coordinates of the new church] Laaksevoetpad 18, 6851 JV Huissen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Gelderland
Directions to Site: The site of the destroyed church, now of the new church is located off the N839, S of the N325, E of the A325, in the municipality of Lingewaard, about 5 km S of Arnhem
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
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: medieval church of ca. 1313 destroyed in WWII firebombing of May 1943
Only a photograph [cf. ImagesArea] remains now of the baptismal font in the old church here destroyed in a May 1942 firebombing in WWII; the stone font consisted of an octagonal basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles on its sides, on a moulded octagonal pedestal base. The pyramidal octagonal cover was almost as tall as the font itself. Source: De Betuwe, R.F.P. de Beaufort en Herma M. van den Berg, Staatsuitgeverij, Den Haag 1968. Of the objects in the Provisional List of Monuments that were lost in the last war: the bluestone baptismal font, 16thC.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.933333, 5.933333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 0″ N, 5° 56′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 701653 5757689

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]