Windesheim

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Source caption: " Het hek van 't huis te Windesheim."
Scene Description: Source caption: " Het hek van 't huis te Windesheim."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kasteelbeer, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 15 October 2010 by Kasteelbeer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windesheim-hek.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-NL

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was it originally a font?
Scene Description: was it originally a font?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landgoed Windesheim, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph in Landgoed Windesheim [https://landgoedwindesheim.nl/ontvangsten/] [accessed 26 December 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 23626WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: [unknown]
Church Location: [address & coordinates for the mansion housing the object] Windesheimerweg 2, 8015 PR Zwolle, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Overijssel
Directions to Site: The Windesheim estate is located W of the N337, 7-8 km S of Zwolle, just E of the county border with Gelderland
Font Location in Church: in the Windesheim estate [cf. FontNotes]
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: listed item [Rijksmonument no. 529125]
Font Notes:
The entry for this item in Monumenten.nl [https://www.monumenten.nl/monument/529125] [accessed 26 December 2021] notes: baptismal font of oval shape made of veined marble in the 17th century, decorated with lion heads/masks with metal rings; used as planter and raised on a modern base or plinth. A communication to BSI (e-mail of 13 December 2021) from Pol Herman added: font in the Huis te Windesheim; the total surface area of ​​the Windesheim estate today covers approximately 660 hectares, of which approximately 20% consists of forests and nature and the remaining cultivated land with farms is leased to farmers. Recently brought inside the eastern house (former carriage house) to prevent weather damage. [NB: it would be debatable that this obiect was originally made as a font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.446212, 6.125557
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 26′ 46.36″ N, 6° 7′ 32″ E
UTM: 32U 304657 5814555