Afferden / Offere
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Scene Description: Source caption; 'Cosmas en Damianuskerk van Afferden"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23814AFF
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholieke Cosmas en Damianus Parochiekerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Church Location: Monseigneur Frederiksplein 4, 5851 AM Afferden, Netherlands
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Limburg
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N251 [Gening Heukelom], on the N banks of the Meuse/Maas river, in the municipality of Bergen, about 25 km SSE of Nijmegen
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Roermond
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall mounted
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Cognate Fonts: a font of somewhat similar material and shape ar Loom op Zand
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this stoup to our attention, for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: believed to there being church here before the cosntruction of the 13thC tower that remains from the medieval church; the latter was modified 16th and 19thC but destroyed in 1944; the tower survived; new church built 1957-1958 next to the old tower which is a listed monument [Monumentnummer: 9022]
Font Notes:
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A communication by Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 9 March 2022) informs of an oval/oblong veined marble holy-water stoup in this church; the basin is wall-mounted but also supported by a pedestal od aproximaterly the same shape.
A further communication from POl Herman (e-mail of 1 March 2022) provides the following references to a missing font:
1) De Maasgouw, 15 juni 1903, Aantekeningen omtrent kunstvoorwerpen, oudheden, enz… in Limburg, by A.J.A. Flament. In the church is an old Romanesque baptismal font.
2) Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel VIII, I. Deprovincie Limburg (Amby-Meer). Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, Den Haag / A. Oosthoek, Utrecht, 1926. Simple limestone baptismal font, partly 16th century
3) Noord-Limburg, by J.H.A. Mialaret, 1937. Limestone baptismal font, with chalice-shaped basin (17th), on octagonal base (16th)
4) Nieuwe Venlosche Courant, 24th of March 1942. The baptismal font of the church is old-romanesque.
"I [Pol Herman] find no trace of the Romanesque font or of a later font." None of the documented fonts is now present in the church; they may all have been destroyed.
The entry for this church in Kerkgebouwen in Limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/afferden/cosmas-en-damianus] [accessed 12 March 2022] reports a baptismal font in the north transept, but it is likely a modern font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.634159, 6.009262
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 38′ 2.97″ N, 6° 0′ 33.34″ E
UTM: 32U 293036 5724586