Grave nr. Nijmegen / De Graaf
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Grave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ichmichi, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a 2008 digital photograph by Ichmichi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grave_kerk.JPG] [accessed 12 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Elisabethkerk, Grave. Interieur."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2017 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17255_Sint-Elisabethkerk_2.jpg] [accessed 12 March 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint Elisabethskerk Grave - Doopvont" [NB: the modern font -- cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincent de Groot, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2007 by Vincent de Groot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elisabeth_doopvont.jpg] [accessed 12 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 23813GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholieke Sint Elisabethskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for Gave's Sint Elisabethskerk] Hoofdwagt 1, 5361 EW Grave, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Noord-Brabant
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N324, on the W banks of the Meuse/Maase river, which is also the border between NBrabant and Gelderland, about 8 km SW of Nijmegen -- Grave was merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention, for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: medieval church probably founded ca.1240, dedicated to St Elizabeth of Hungary; became collegiate 1308; destroyed by fire 1415; re-built soon thereafter, enlarged in the same century; much damaged by wars, lightning, fire, etc.; closed due to its poor condition 1971 and restored, reopening 1981
Font Notes:
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A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 9 March 2022) notes: In the Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen gevestigd te Amsterdam, 1866, page LXVIII, it is reported that the government’s engineer W.F. Leemans has sent in a drawing of a font that was found when digging a pit behind the army barracks of Grave. The work’s supervisor H.F.C. Hamilton added handwritten notes. I [Pol Herman] was unsuccessful in my search for traces of this font. Perhaps the font referred to above was from the Roman Catholic Saint Elisabeth's church in Grave [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Grave,_Hoofdwagt_1_-_Elisabeth] [accessed 9 March 2022] From 1674 to 1799, the church was in the hands of the protestants, but when it was given back to the Roman Catholics, it was no more than a ruin." The new font at Grave [cf. ImagesArea] is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.760133, 5.740411
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 36.48″ N, 5° 44′ 25.48″ E
UTM: 31U 689118 5737913