Buren

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Protestant church of Buren at 24 April 2015"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 April 2015 by Henk Monster [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protestant_church_of_Buren_at_24_April_2015_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2022]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: showing the altered font to the right of the pulpit, inside the railing enclosure

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by HenkvD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buren_Sint-Lambertuskerk_Preekstoel.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2022]

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view of font in context

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 September 2021 by HenkvD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buren_Sint-Lambertuskerk_Preekstoel.jpg] [accessed 11 February 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: "The bowl was accidentally found under the floor during the restoration of the church in the years 1976-1980. This gave the restoration architect a playful idea: he wanted to place the object back in the church and designed a black pedestal on which the bowl could be placed. So it became a baptismal font. On its sides were placed four bronze medals, depicting the symbols of the four evangelists. The Amsterdam artist Marianne Letterie (1945) designed the medals. The former holy water bowl has now been used as a baptismal font next to the pulpit for over forty years" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2008 by André van Dijk, in Reliwiki [https://www.reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Buren_PKN._vm.NHK._Lambertus_1395_Gld._foto..kerkenverzamelaar_(15).JPG] [accessed 11 February 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23744BUR

Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Lambertuskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]

Church Location: Markt 4, 4116 BE te Buren, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Located off the N834 on the N bank of De Korne, about 5 km NE of Geldermalsen, 20-25 km SE of Utrecht

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[basin only] [altered] [composite font], Pre-Reformation [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: founded 1367; became parish church 1395 dedicated to St Lambert; modified 15hC; restored 1973-1980 and 1990 -- listed church [Monumentnummer 11329] -- the church can now [2022] be rented for concerts, exhibitions, etc.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 7 February 2022) notes: The Lambertus Church of Buren houses a special baptismal font. This is in fact a reused medieval holy water bowl. It is a hard stone object. The date is probably fifteenth century or older. Before the Reformation, the holy water bowl was at the back of the church, close to the portal. [...] When the Lambertus Church was transferred to the Reformed at the end of the sixteenth century, the holy water bowl lost its function and was lost. The bowl was accidentally found under the floor during the restoration of the church in the years 1976-1980. This gave the restoration architect a playful idea: he wanted to place the object back in the church and designed a black pedestal on which the bowl could be placed. So it became a baptismal font. On its sides were placed four bronze medals, depicting the symbols of the four evangelists. The Amsterdam artist Marianne Letterie (1945) designed the medals. The former holy water bowl has now been used as a baptismal font next to the pulpit for over forty years. The object symbolizes the transition from Catholic to Protestant use of the Church of Buren. Baptism is also done with water in the Protestant liturgy, but not consecrated. The former holy water bowl in Buren also symbolizes continuity of one of the most important rituals and symbols of Christianity: the ritual cleansing of the human spirit.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.911389, 5.334444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 41″ N, 5° 20′ 4″ E

UTM: 31U 660567 5753758

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal