Geertruidenberg
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view of church exterior in context - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2014 by Jan Korpershoek, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Geertruidenberg,_Elfhuizen_3_-_au(s)04082014jk.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: a modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Korpershoek, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2014 by Jan Korpershoek, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Geertruidenberg,_Elfhuizen_3_-_ii(s)04082014jk.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: a modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Korpershoek, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2014 by Jan Korpershoek, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Geertruidenberg,_Elfhuizen_3_-_ih(s)04082014jk.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23703GEE
Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Kerk / Heilige Gertrudiskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Gertrud [originally]
Church Location: Elfhuizen 3, 4931 AX Geertruidenberg, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 162 518 473
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: Located on the W bank of the Donge river, 13-14 km NNE of Breda, 15-20 km SE of Dordrecht
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: original 11thC tufa church dedicated to St Gertrud of Nijvel / Nivelles; church documented 1261; became collegiate 1310; burned down together with the town in 1420; re-built thereafter; damaged in the sieges of 1593 and 1793-1794
A fragment of a 15th-century(?) blue limestone font here is reported in Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumentenvan geschiedenis en kunst. Deel X. De provincie Noord-Brabant (1931). The entry for this church in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Geertruidenberg,_Elfhuizen_3_-_Geertruidskerk] [accessed 26 January 2022] reports a baptismal font made of copper in 1741 in the Louis XVI style ["koperen doopvont in Lodewijk XVI stijl uit 1741"]. An illustration in the same source [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Geertruidenberg,_Elfhuizen_3_-_ii(s)04082014jk.jpg] [shows a stone font with a metal cover in the context of the church interior; the font looks modern. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 8 January 2022) refers to Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumentenvan geschiedenis en kunst. Deel X. De provincie Noord-Brabant (1931) in raletion to a fragment of a bluestone baptismal font (probably XV) in this church. [NB: not clear from the sources whether the font fragment is "de oude man", a head said to have been built into the chancel wall].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.700453,
4.862614
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 42′ 1.63″ N,
4° 51′ 45.41″ E
UTM: 31U 628716 5729365
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: fragment
