Elsloo
Image copyright © Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, 2011
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Results: 7 records
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: now badly damaged, lacking most of the original detail; the damage extends to the basin sides as well; there may have been originally four detached colonnettes at the angles, connecting the protruding heads with the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph September 2011 by Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/elsloo/augustinus] [accessed
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption; "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: exterieur naar het westen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a November 1953 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterieur_naar_het_westen_-_Elsloo_-_20069580_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Augustinuskerk, Elsloo, Limburg, Nederland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 11 September 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elsloo-Sint-Augustinuskerk_(3).JPG] [accessed 15 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: showing the medieval font in the nave, near the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph September 2011 by Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/elsloo/augustinus] [accessed
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph September 2011 by Harry Vrancken, Sweikhuizen, in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/elsloo/augustinus] [accessed
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source not available]; provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image [source not available]; provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 23676ELS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: RK Heilige Augustinuskerk / Rooms Katholieke parochiekerk Sint-Augustinus
Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo
Church Location: Op de Berg 9, 6181 GT Elsloo, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located between the river Maas (W) and the A2 (E), S of the A76/E314, about 15 km NNE of Maastricht
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the base of the pulpit
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
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: church here documented ca. 1400; church washed away by the Maas flood in 1459; new replacement church of 1459 dedicated to St Mary; demolished 1840; new church consecrated 1849; damaged WWII; additional church built farther east; Sint-Augustinuskerk restored 1963-1965
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Kerkegebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/elsloo/augustinus] [accessed 15 June 2022] reports a Romanesque baptismal font of ca. 1200 in this church. The font consists of a round basin with four human heads at 90-degree angles, now badly damaged/disfigured, a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a square lower base that appears to show the bases for four detached colonnettes that would have connected to the basin heads originally. The wooden font cover is modern. A communication to BSi from Pol Herman (e-mail of 28 December 2021) notes: "It is said that only the basin of the baptismal font could be saved from the river. For an unknown reason, the heads and the decorated side walls of the baptismal font have been chopped off. The damage cannot be attributed to the flooding."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.948369, 5.759583
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 54.13″ N, 5° 45′ 34.5″ E
UTM: 31U 693838 5647710
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: 3?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]