Spekholzerheide in Kerkrade
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aljo Tossaint, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2008 by Aljo Tossaint, in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/spekholzerheide/martinus] [accessed 5 February 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption; "Doopvont uit ca. 1700."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aljo Tossaint, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2008 by Aljo Tossaint, in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/spekholzerheide/martinus] [accessed 5 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23724SPE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1700?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century, Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Rooms Katholieke Sint-Martinuskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: mid-19thC church
Church Address: Spekholzerheide, 6466 HR Kerkrade, Netherlands
Site Location: Limburg, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located N of the N300, W of the N299, E of the N281 and the E314/A76, 5 km SE of Heerlen, near the German border
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of ca. 1700 in dark marble: small roughly hemispherical basin with gadrooned band around the underbowl; on a round baluster-shaped pedestal base, tiny round lower base and triangular plinth. Metal [brass? / copper?] font cover with orb-and-cross finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 290724 5638022
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.855969, 6.026492
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 21.49″ N, 6° 1′ 35.37″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]