Sint-Geertruid / Breust op den Berg / Se-Gietere
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1936 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopkapel_doopvont_-_Sint_Geertruid_-_20326244_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk, Sint Geertruid, Limburg, Nederland"
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2010 by Romanine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint_Geertruid-Kerk_(1).JPG] [accessed 6 March 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Overzicht: dorpsgezicht"
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorpsgezicht_-_Sint_Geertruid_-_20075473_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2022]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1936 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopkapel_doopvont_-_Sint_Geertruid_-_20326244_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rooms-Katholieke Kerk: Interieur doopkapel doopvont"
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Image Source: digital image of a 1936 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_doopkapel_doopvont_-_Sint_Geertruid_-_20326244_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 6 March 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23800GER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rooms-Katholieke Sint-Geertruidkerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Gertrude the Great [aka Gertrud die Große von Helfta, Gertrude of Helfta, Gertrudis]
Church Location: Eindstraat 2, 6265 AC Sint Geertruid, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located E of the E25/A2, just N of Libeek and the Belgian border, in the municipality of Eijsden-Margraten since 2011, about 7 km SSE of Maastricht
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
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: few remains left of the 11thC Romanesque church; much modified 14th, 15th, 16th, 17thC; damaged by fire 1976; restored 1980 -- listed church [Monumentnummer: 34688]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of Namur stone consisting of a round tapering basin decorated with a torus-scotia-torus all around; plain uderbowl; on a plain polygonal [octagonal?] pedestal base. The wooden cover has a side lock and appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.796389, 5.765556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 47″ N, 5° 45′ 56″ E
UTM: 31U 694891 5630829
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Namur)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]