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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk van Sint-Pieter beneden, Maastricht, Nederland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 July 2015 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maastricht-Kerk_van_Sint-Pieter_beneden_(5).JPG] [accessed 17 January 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Pieter beneden, kerk in Sint Pieter, Maastricht - interieur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Otter, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2008 by Otter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Pieter_beneden_20080914_interior.jpg] [accessed 17 January 2022]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Doopvont, uitgevoerd in "rood" marmer met koperen deksel op een hardstenen voet, afkomstig uit de oude kerk beneden, afgebroken in 1747 en vervolgens geplaatst in de nieuwe kerk "op de berg", momenteel in de kerk "beneden"."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Breur Henket, 2022
Image Source: digital image in Historie van kerken en kerkhof te Sint-Pieter [https://www.breurhenket.com/Kerkhistorie/Kerkhistorie.htm] [accessed 17 January 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23679BRE
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Heilige Petrus kerk / Sint-Pieter beneden / Sint-Petruskerk [new church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Sint Maternusstraat 15, 6212 BV Maastricht, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N278, on the W bank of the Maas/Meuse river, S of the Maastricht city centre
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: older church demolished 1747
The Rijksmonumentenregister entry for this church [https://monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl/monumenten/506700 ] [accessed 17 January 2022] reports a baptismal font consisting of basin made of reddish marble raised on a limestone base daet by an inscription to the mid-17th century. The font cover was made of copper in 1826. Pol Herman adds (e-mal of 30 December 2021): "The copper lid dates from 1826. On January 12, 1826, Leonardus THUIJS, youngest son of Guilielmus THUIJS and Cornelia BIESMANS (BEISMANS BEESMANS), the unmarried messenger of the St. Pieter church, died. Leonard was baptized on 13 Jun 1751 in St. Pieter. He was buried in St. Pieter on 12 January 1826, aged 74. According to ancient tradition, all unmarried people gave a memorial gift to the church at the funeral of a friend. In his memory, the copper baptismal font cover was donated by the "youth". Diary of Rosier: it was carried by 10 young men and they have offered the copper lid for the baptismal stone, which cost of 25 guilders (Liège money)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.839132,
5.692688
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 50′ 20.87″ N,
5° 41′ 33.68″ E
UTM: 31U 689583 5635391
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble [basin] and limestone [base]
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the base
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1826
Material:
metal,
copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hemispheric dome with orb-and-cross finial; inscribed with date
