Rucphen
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Martinuskerk in Rucphen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G. Lanting, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2011 by G. Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinuskerk_P1060918.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Martinuskerk in Rucphen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G. Lanting, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2011 by G. Lanting [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinuskerk_P1060910.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 23618RUC
Church/Chapel: Rooms Katholieke Sint-Martinuskerk / H. Martinus Rucphen
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Raadhuisstraat 3, 4715 CB, Rucphen, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: Located off the N638, S of the A58, 6 km E of Roosendaal, about 40 km NNE of Antwerp
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
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: first mention of a 'capella matutinalis' in Rucphen dates from 1432; became parochial 1442, "with a graveyard and baptismal font, and all other parochial rights and privileges"; re-buil larger in 1465; Lodewijkskerk was built in 1809; RC St. Martinuskerk was completed in 1933 but greatly damaged in WWII; restored with modifications -- listed church [Rijksmonument no. 517054]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Preliminary list of Dutch monuments of history and art. Volume X. The Province of North Brabant, Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, The Hague / A. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1931, reports a bluestone baptismal font (XV), the octagonal basin is decorated with four heads, but it cannot be found in the present church; it was probably destroyed during WWII, when the church was badly damaged.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.53282,
4.55701
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 31′ 58.15″ N,
4° 33′ 25.24″ E
UTM: 31U 607996 5710228
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal