Oude Niedorp

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: zuid-oost zijde, exterieur" -- it would be largely damaged by lightning strike and fire in 1977

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Image Source: digital image of an August 1968 B&W photograph by Gerard Dukker, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuid-oost_zijde,_exterieur_-_Oude_Niedorp_-_20178851_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 2 January 2022]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Overzicht van de ruïnekerk in Oude Niedorp, Noord-Holland, gezien vanaf de koorzijde." -- the remains of the former parish church are now managed as a ruin

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Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Dqfn13 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruïnekerk,_Oude_Niedorp_01.jpg] [accessed 2 January 2021]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Op de plek waar ooit het koor was, is in de vloer een bloem aangebracht."

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Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Dqfn13 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruïnekerk,_koor,_Oude_Niedorp.jpg] [accessed 2 January 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23646NIE
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Werenfried of Elst [aka Werenfrid, Werenfridus] [originally]
Church Location: Ruïnekerk Oude Niedorp, Dorpsstraat 31, 1734 JJ Oude Niedorp, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Holland
Directions to Site: Located between the N242 (N) and the N241 (S), just E of Verlaat, in the municipality of Hollands Kroon, 8-9 km NE of Heerhugowaard, about 12 km NW of Hoorn
Font Location in Church: [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: original 13thC church demolished 14thC due to subsidience; re-built thereafter; demolished again 1783 again due to subsidience; re-built; restored 1953-1954; church largely destroyed by lightning strike in 1977
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 20 December 2021) provides mention to an exceptional baptismal font in this church. 1) Kerkelijke historie en outheden der zeven vereenigde provincien, vierde deel, Oudheden en Gestichten van Kemmenerland, Amstelland, Noordholland en Westvriesland. Uit het latijn vertaald door Hugo Franciscus van Heussen (Laiden, 1726), writes of a baptismal font of this church was so stately and artfully made that its peer could not be found in all of Holland, perhaps with the exception of Leiden. 2) ONZE OMGEVING. Uit de Kroniek door W. Wijker, J. van Leverink (Schagerbrug, 1899) notes: The church at Oude Niedorp was dedicated to St. Werenfridius. The most beautiful baptismal font in all of our country was once located here. Unfortunately we have not been able to find further details of the font yet. Was it destroyed in the 1977 fire?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.719717, 4.878097
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 43′ 10.98″ N, 4° 52′ 41.15″ E
UTM: 31U 626848 5842747