Uitwijk / Uittik

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph 5 March 2022 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Image Source: digital photograph 5 March 2022 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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design element - patterns - interlace - 3-strand - diagonal

Image Source: digital photograph 5 March 2022 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Uitwijk, kerk"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 October 2007 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2007-10-07_14.11_Uitwijk,_kerk.JPG] [accessed 10 March 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: with the stone font in the southeast corner

Image Source: digital photograph 23 August 2012 by Jan Korpershoek, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Uitwijk,_Kerkplein_2_-_ii(s)16082012jk.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2022]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 5 March 2022 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 23 August 2012 by Jan Korpershoek, in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Uitwijk,_Kerkplein_2_-_ie(s)16082012jk.jpg] [accessed 10 March 2022]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph in the Protestantse Gemeente Uitwijk Waardhuizen [https://www.uw-kerk.nl/onze-kerk/uitwijk.html] [accessed 10 March 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23810UIT

Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Kerk Uitwijk Waardhuizen [formerly Onze-Lieve-Vrouw]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Kerkplein 2, 4288 JJ Uitwijk, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Noord-Brabant

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N322, 1 km N of Stenenheul, in the municipality of Altena, about 25 km E of Dordrecht

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SE end of the nave

Century and Period: , Medieval? / Modern?

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: original wooden church; stone building ca.1100; modified 1280; brick tower ca.1300 -- listed church [Rijksmonument no.: 39623]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in the Protestantse Gemeente Uitwijk Waardhuizen [https://www.uw-kerk.nl/onze-kerk/uitwijk.html] [accessed 10 March 2022] as a Romanesque baptismal font that had served as a planter in the resident's garden; it was donated to the church at the time of the restoration [="Het doopvont is Romaans, uit zandsteen gehouwen. Dit doopvont stond oorspronkelijk bij een bewoner van Uitwijk in de tuin als bloembak. Bij de restauratie is het geschonken aan de kerk."] The font has a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding around the upper rim; below runs a blind arcade of round arches supported on slender columns with capitals and bases, tapering tower the bottom of the underbowl; raised on a round pedestal base with a beautiful and uncommon diagonal pattern of three-strand interlace all around; the lower base is round-to-square, the round part decorated with a torus-scotia-torus pattern. It is quite possible that not all the parts of the font were originally together. The metal font cover appears modern. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 11 January 2024) informs about his reticence to accept this font ar face value; instead, he suggests that it may be neo-Romanesque product of the Spanish workshops that were active in the late-19th and early-20th century, exporting their ancient-looking fonts across Europe; there was no pretense or claim to undue antiquity but rather a popular fashion.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.785317, 5.008194

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 7.14″ N, 5° 0′ 29.5″ E

UTM: 31U 638516 5739069

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: 3?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]