Grashoek / De Graashoek / De Grashook

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: church consecrated 1954

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Image Source: digital photograph June 2009 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/grashoek/h-hart-van-jezus] [accessed 15 January 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the ca. 1700 font and its cover are discernible at the far [east] end, right [south] side, below the right window of the apse

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Image Source: digital photograph June 2009 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/grashoek/h-hart-van-jezus] [accessed 15 January 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Soutrce caption: "Grashoek [...] Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: Interieur, doopvont" [NB: showing the font and cover in the 1918 emergency church; it must have been moved later to the new church consecrated in 1954]

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Image Source: digital image of a 1929 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur,_doopvont_-_Grashoek_-_20083494_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the ca. 1700 font [provenance unknown] inside the 1950s church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph June 2009 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/grashoek/h-hart-van-jezus] [accessed 15 January 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23673GRA
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Parochiekerk Heilig Hart van Jezus
Church Patron Saints: Sacred Heart
Church Location: Roomweg 46, 5985 NV Grashoek, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located S of the A67/E34, W of the N560, in the municipality of Peel en Maas, 18-20 km W of Venlo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1700?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
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: modern emergency church of 1918; re-built 1953; consecrated 1954
A baptismal font made of black highly polished limestone resembling marble ca. 1700 is reported in Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel VIII, I. De provincie Limburg (Amby-Meer), 1926, in this church; the round basin has gadrooned pattern all around the underbowl; raised on a baluster-shaped round pedestal base and moulded round lower base; on a moulded square plinth. Bell-shaped metal cover with orb-and-cross finial [NB: we have no information on the provenance of this font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.360939, 5.940664
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 21′ 39.38″ N, 5° 56′ 26.39″ E
UTM: 31U 704720 5694069

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: [pre-1929]
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]