Westervoort (Gelderland)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption; " Nederlands Hervormde Kerk (Westervoort)"

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 1957 font in context

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 1957 font in context

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Image Source: digital photograph 8 December 2006, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:2010-6.JPG] [accessed 7 February 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23731WES
Church/Chapel: Nederlands Hervormde Sint-Werenfriedkerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Werenfridus [aka Warnfried, Werenfrid, Werenfried]
Church Location: Dorpstraat 61, 6931BA Westervoort, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Gelderland
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N325, on the S bank of the Ijssel river , 3-4 km SE of Arnhem town centre [NB: the RC church of the same dedication is located E, across the Brugweg
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 in documenting it
Church Notes: -- listed church [Rijksmonument no. 38844]
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 2 February 2022) informs that the present font in this church is dated 1957 by an inscription ["Het doopvont met daarop de tekst “Ik heb u bij uw naam geroepen” – 1957"], but a 19th-century source, Kerkgeschiedenis van Nederland voor de Hervorming, door W. Moll, hoogleraar te Amsterdam, Tweede Deel, Derde Stuk (Utrecht: Kemink en Zonen, 1869: 175) reports fragments of an old baptismal font at Westervoort at the time, though there is no trace of those fragments to be found on site now.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.963333, 5.966389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57' 48.0" N, 5° 57' 59.0" E
UTM: 31U 703789 5761117

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: [fragment]