Reek / De Reke

Image copyright © Mari van der Linden, 2022
Image received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 January 2022)
Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mari van der Linden, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Mari van der Linden,
secretaris Heemkunde Schaijk-Reek
Copyright Instructions: Image received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 January 2022)
view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Reek (Landerd) Rijksmonument 519141 kerk H. Antonius Abt} -- modern church of 1925
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a 7 April 2011 digital photograph by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reek_(Landerd)_Rijksmonument_519141_kerk_H._Antonius_Abt_achterzijde.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: kerk naar het zuid-oosten" [NB: this church would be demolished in 1926]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1924 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_naar_het_zuid-oosten_-_Reek_-_20185016_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Reek (Landerd) Rijksmonument 519141 kerk H. Antonius Abt} -- modern church of 1925
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a 7 April 2011 digital photograph by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reek_(Landerd)_Rijksmonument_519141_kerk_H._Antonius_Abt.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: interieur naar het oosten"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1924 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_naar_het_oosten_-_Reek_-_20185017_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: " Reek (Landerd) Rijksmonument 519141 kerk H. Antonius Abt, interieur" -- modern church of 1925; the baptismal font is discernible against the south pillar of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reek_(Landerd)_Rijksmonument_519141_kerk_H._Antonius_Abt_interieur.JPG] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 23657REE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholieke Heilige Antonius Abtkerk / Sint-Antoniuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Church Location: Monseigneur Borretstraat 1, 5375 AA Reek, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N277, N of the N324, in the municipality of Maashorst, 8-10 km E of Oss, 10-12 km WSW of Nijmegen
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, by the S pillar of chancel arch
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it. We are also grateful to Mari van der Linden, secretaris Heemkunde Schaijk-Reek, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: private chapel dedicated to St Donatus documented 1455; 1520 dedication documented to Donatus and Antonius; became independent parish 17thC; demolished 1789; re-build 1803; demolished 1926; present church 1925 -- listed church [Rijksmonumentenregister no. 519141]
Font Notes:
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A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 December 2021) reports a bluestone baptismal font with four heads around the rim, one head has disappeared, on a pedestal of a column, restored. 15th century [ca. 1450] [source: Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel X. De provincie Noord-Brabant (1931)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.746236, 5.683161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 46.45″ N, 5° 40′ 59.38″ E
UTM: 31U 685224 5736221
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low dome with orb-and-cross finial