Hellum

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view of church - plan

Scene Description: Source caption: "N.H.Kerk en Toren: plattegrond div.per."

Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plattegrond_div.per._-_Hellum_-_20107985_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2022]

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view of church exterior - tower

Scene Description: as noted in the caption this was the 13thC detached tower that was demolished in 1872

Image Source: digital image of a November 1939 drawing in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toren_naar_tekening_-_Hellum_-_20107950_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hellum, Hoofdweg 33 - Ned. Hervormde Kerk -2015"

Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2015 by Pa3ems [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hellum,_Hoofdweg_33_-_Ned._Hervormde_Kerk_-2015-026.JPG] [accessed 8 Fberuary 2022]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: a former coffin now transformed into a baptismal font; the side facing east shows the inside of the former coffin

Image Source: digital image of a June 1966 photograph by A.J. van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Hellum_-_20107982_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2022]

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view of font in context

a former coffin now transformed into a baptismal font; the side with the metal basin facing west is the outer bottom of the former coffin

Scene Description: a former coffin now transformed into a baptismal font; the side with the metal basin facing west is the outer bottom of the former coffin

Image Source: digital photograph 2 March 2009 by André van Dijk [Kerkenverzamelaar], in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Hellum,_Hoofdweg_33_-_Walfriduskerk] [accessed 8 February 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23738HEL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Walfriduskerk in Hellum

Church Patron Saints: St. Walfrid [aka Walfridus]

Church Location: Hoofdweg 33, 9627 PA Hellum, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Groningen

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N387 [aka Provinzialeweg], about 15 km E of Groningen

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

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: late-11thC church much modified thereafter; two towers (detached and attached) reported 15th-16thC; attached tower lowered and covered by the church building ca. 1646; 1871 remaining tower demolished 1871 and re-built 1872; renovated 1960s

Font Notes: Click to view

The present font in use in this church is an odd construct of a stone coffing said to be of the early Frankish settlements by the Ijssel river, standing on one end, to which a small metal basin has been attached to the lower end; it now stands on one of its narrow ends in the chancel and serves as baptismal font. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (emial of 5 February 2022) informs that K. Kuike's article 'Zandstenen grafkisten in middeleeuws Drenthe' in Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak (2006: 155) reports the use of an early Frankish sacophagus has been used to make a bpatismal font in this church. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.238133, 6.838353

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 17.28″ N, 6° 50′ 18.07″ E

UTM: 32U 355740 5900942