Merkelbeek / Merkelbek

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design element - motifs - floral - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph June 2008 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/merkelbeek/clemens] [accessed 20 January 2022]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph June 2008 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/merkelbeek/clemens] [accessed 20 January 2022]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Kerk, Merkelbeek, Limburg, Nederland" -- the new church

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Image Source: digital photograph 14 April 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merkelbeek-Kerk_(4).JPG] [accessed 20 January 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: -- the old church, now restored

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph October 2014 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/brunssum/oude-parochiekerk-merkelbeek-kerkhofmuur-grafmonument-en-klooster-clemensdomein] [accessed 20 January 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "doopvont in het rechter transept"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkgebouwen in Limburg, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph June 2008 in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/merkelbeek/clemens] [accessed 20 January 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23681MER
Church/Chapel: Rooms Katholieke Parochiekerk H. Clemens / Sint-Clemenskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Clemens
Church Location: Wilmenweg 1A, 6447 AW Merkelbeek, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N276, W of the N300, WNW of Brunssum, about 20 km NE of Maastricht
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Roermond (RK)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the transept
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel VIII, II. De provincie Limburg (Meerloo-Zwalmen), 1926) reports a baptismal font (or holy-water stoup?) of the 15th century. The object consists of an octagonal basin with moulded sides and, instead of the usual four heads set at 90-degree angles, here they are replaced by floral motifs; plain octagonal pedestal base on an octagonal-to-square moulded lower base. Bell-shaped metal cover [copper?] with orb-and-cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.954156, 5.940147
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 14.96″ N, 5° 56′ 24.53″ E
UTM: 31U 706494 5648843

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]