Leermens
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Donatuskerk in Leermens."
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interieur in de Donatuskerk in Leermens" [NB: interesting arrangement in the chancel]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hardscarf, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2016 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leermens_-_Donatuskerk_-_interieur_(1).jpg] [accessed 27 March 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interieur in de Donatuskerk in Leermens" -- view west from inside the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hardscarf, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2016 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leermens_-_Donatuskerk_-_interieur_(4).jpg] [accessed 27 March 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23847LEE
Church/Chapel: PKN Hervormde Kerk [Sint-Donatuskerk]
Church Patron Saints: St. Donatus [aka Donatus of Arezzo]
Church Location: Kerkpad 7, 9912 PB Leermens, Netherlands -- Te.: +31 596 581 716
Country Name: Netherlands
Location: Groningen
Directions to Site: Located N of the N360, in the municipality of Eemsdelta, 20-25 km NE of Groningen
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: church started ca. 1050; badly damaged in 1957 fire -- listed church [Monumentnummer: 40301]
A. Pathuis, 'Het handschrift "Ommelands Eer" van Pater Franciscus Mijleman S.J., Missionaris der Ommelanden 1639-1667' in: Archief voor de geschiedenis van de Katholieke Kerk in Nederland, VII (1965), page 60, reports that a pre-Reformation baptismal font was still present in this church in the mid-17th century.
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 26 March 2022) refers to Regnerus Steensma's article “Dit vat heft geven…, Middeleeuwse doopvonten in Groningen”, in which he writes that Franciscus Mijleman, around 1640, found old baptismal fonts still standing in churches. In Leermens, Middelstum, Huizinge, Uithuizermeeden and other villages. Mijleman mentions explicitly that the font at Uithuizermeeden was still standing in its original location inside the church. Steensma interprets this by suggesting that the fonts in the other churches were still present, but had been moved and were no longer used. [NB: we have no information on whether the font in question was the original of the 11th-12th century church, of a later pre-Reformation replacement, nor on its present whereabouts].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.345978,
6.796986
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 20′ 45.52″ N,
6° 47′ 49.15″ E
UTM: 32U 353350 5913021
