Mechelen nr. Gulpen

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zicht op een deel van de Sint Jan de Doperkerk in Mechelen, Limburg, Nederland"

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 November 2010 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mechelen-Kerk_(2).JPG] [accessed 23 January 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: INTERIEUR, OVERZICHT NAAR HET OOSTEN" -- the bases of the two columns are designed as holy-water stoups

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Image Source: digital image of a 17 March 1993 by P. van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Mechelen_-_20283867_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: INTERIEUR, OVERZICHT NAAR HET WESTEN"

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Image Source: digital image of a 17 March 1993 by P. van Galen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_WESTEN_-_Mechelen_-_20283866_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: digital photograph [source not available] provided by Pol Herman

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: wijwaterbak in basement van kolom" -- one of two such

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Image Source: image of an edited detail of a May 1980 B&W photograph by Loek Tangel, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wijwaterbak_in_basement_van_kolom_-_Mechelen_-_20151534_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23690MEC
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Jan de Doperkerk
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Hoofdstraat 2, 6281 BD Mechelen, Nederland
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located on the E bank of the Kleine Geul, in the municipality and SE of Gulpen and Wittem, about 15 km ESE of Maastricht
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 17th century[altered?],
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: medieval church [ca. 1215?] destroyed by fire in 1568; re-built 1610-1625; re-built 1810-1811; modified 1863-1867; modified 1935 -- listed church [Rijksmonument no. 39226]
The presnt font consists of a 17th-century(?) basin, roughly hemispherical and plain, raised on a quadrangular pedestal base (which may be a modern replacement). Bell-shaped copper font cover with ball finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.796536, 5.925603
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 47.53″ N, 5° 55′ 32.17″ E
UTM: 31U 706167 5631280

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

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