Gemert / Gimmert

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human figure - head - 4

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 May 2016 by Anton van Daal, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Gemert,_Kerkstraat_4_-_St._Jans_Onthoofding-AntonvD-2016-434.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2021]

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view of basin and cover

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "De St. Jan de Doperkerk de Gemert"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 August 2017 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16050_St._Jan_de_Doperkerk.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Sint Johanneskerk: Interieur, overzicht naar het oosten gezien"

Image Source: digital photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16050_St._Jan_de_Doperkerk.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: " Sint Johanneskerk: Interieur, overzicht naar het westen gezien"

Image Source: digital photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_overzicht_naar_het_westen_gezien_-_Gemert_-_20379788_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 5 May 2016 by Anton van Daal, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Gemert,_Kerkstraat_4_-_St._Jans_Onthoofding-AntonvD-2016-434.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23619GEM

Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholieke Sint-Jans Onthoofdingkerk / St. Jan de Doperkerk in Gemert

Church Patron Saints: The Decollation of St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Kerkepad, 5421 LR Gemert, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 492 361 215

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Noord-Brabant

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N272, in the municipality of Peelrand, about 20 km NE of Eindhoven

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in its baptismal area

Century and Period: 15th 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: 15thC church, built between 1437 and 1455 by the Teutonic Knights; radically renovated and tower added in 1853 -- listed church [Rijksmonument no. 16050] -- The St. Janskerk in Gemert is the only preserved Teutonic Order church of all the former commanderies in the Netherlands, which as such is still in use as a parish church.

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The entry for this church in the Rijksmonumenten [https://rijksmonumenten.nl/monument/16050/st-jan-de-doperkerk/gemert/] [accessed 25 December 2021] reports a baptismal font made of limestone in the 15th century in it. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a broad flat moulding and four human heads set at 90-degree angles, a plain round underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal base. Dome-shaped metal cover, also octagonal, with round finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.555092, 5.680628

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 33′ 18.33″ N, 5° 40′ 50.26″ E

UTM: 31U 685830 5714962

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Number of Pieces: 2?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]