Beesel No. 2

Main image for Beesel No. 2

Image copyright © Wiel Luys, 2021

Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 14 December 2021)

Results: 2 records

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiel Luys, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2005 by Wiel Luys
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 14 December 2021)

human figure - male - crowned - bearded

likely one of four original figures on the basin
Scene Description: likely one of four original figures on the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiel Luys, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2005 by Wiel Luys
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 14 December 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23637BEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)?
Church/Chapel: Sint Gertrudiskerk te Beesel
Church Patron Saints: St. Gertrude the Great [aka Gertrud die Große von Helfta, Gertrude of Helfta, Gertrudis]
Church Location: Kerkplein 1, 5954 BA Beesel, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located between the N273 (N) and the A73 (S), 10-12 km NE of Roermond
Date: ca. 115-1175?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font / Namur font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Wiel Luys and to Pol Herman for their help in documenting these fragments
Font Notes:
The Loe Giesen site [http://www.loegiesen.nl/toponiemen/BEESEL-K.htm#Gertrudiskerk] [accessed 28 December 2021] reports the discovery of a fragment of a limestone baptismal font suggesting an early church also at Beesel> With the help of Pol Herman we have been able to get information and images of the fragment from Wiel Luys, a source in the Netherlands: "Hierbij een tweetal foto's van een kop van de doopvont die gevonden is. Ik heb nog andere foto's uit een andere hoek. Mocht het nodig zijn dan hoor ik dit gaarne. Als je iets meer kunt vertellen over de kop dan is dit welkom." (e-mail of 14 December 2021 from Wiel Luys to Pol Herman forwarded to BSI). Pol Herman comments: "this looks like Mosan 1150-1175" [cf. BSI entry for Beesel No. 1 for the later font in the parish church of Beesel but believed to be originally form Ouddorp].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 16' 11.28" N, 6° 1' 58.8" E
UTM: 32U 293376 5683753