Liempde

GESCHIEDENIS VAN NOORDBRABANT Door Peter Norbertus Panken te Bergeik, vernieuwd en gerangschikt, 1898, Stichting Cultureel Brabant (CuBra), gedigitaliseerd door Johan Biemans [http://www.cubra.nl/Panken_P_N/index.htm] [accessed 26 March 2022] reports a large blue-stone baptismal font until it was taken out of the church, having served in that church and in the barn church as a stoup [="Ook bewaarde ze eene merkwaardige groote blauw-steenen doopvont tot 18.., toen ze uit de kerk werd gestooten, nadat ze daarin en vroeger in de schuurkerk als wijwatervat had gediend."]; the source notes that the font was adorned with heads and other sculptures. Until a few years ago an old font or large stoup stood on a corner of the wall which surrounded the graveyard of the old church. On August 30, 1883, at the town hall, the mayor there told me [i.e., Panke] that this object had been placed next to a road in the Broek as a boarder pole or corner stone. According to his description it will be about 50 cm in diameter. On the edge are inscribed the words: Asparagus me. A piece of the basin was broken off, possibly bearing the date or something like that. [NB: in a communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 23 March 2022) he wrote: "“adorned with heads and other sculptures” could mean a Mosan Romanesque font. Liempde fits in the region of distribution of such fonts. If the font were Gothic with four heads, there would not be “other sculptures”. The second object must have been a stoup, taking in consideration its small diameter [cf. FontNotes]]. The entry for this church in Reliwiki [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Liempde,_Dorpsstraat_36_-_Johannes_Onthoofding] [accessed 26 March 2022] reports a copper baptismal font [="een koperen doopvont"] in it, but the corresponding illustration shows a modern font of greenish marble with a metal [copper?] cover on it [cf. ImagesArea].