Middelstum

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk van Middelstum"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2011 by Fransvannes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KerkMiddelstum.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Het interieur van de Sint-Hippolytuskerk in Middelstum"

Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2020 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelstum_-_Sint-Hippolytuskerk_-_interieur.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2022]

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view of church interior - pulpit in context

Scene Description: a post-Reformation metal font or stoup in the lower right-hand corner

Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2020 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelstum_-_Sint-Hippolytuskerk_-_kansel_rechts.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2022]

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view of church interior - pulpit in context

Scene Description: a post-Reformation metal font by the steps of the pulpit

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 September 2020 by Hardscarf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middelstum_-_Sint-Hippolytuskerk_-_kansel_rechts.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23848MID

Church/Chapel: Sint-Hippolytuskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Hippolytus of Rome

Church Location: Concordiaplein 1 / Boerdamsterweg 12A, 9991 BN Middelstum, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Groningen

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N996, W of the N46, about 20 km NNE of Groningen

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it

Church Notes: present church built 15thC; restored 1870s -- listed church [Monumentnummer: 29894]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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 the whereabouts of the 15th-century font here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.347794, 6.641231

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 20′ 52.06″ N, 6° 38′ 28.43″ E

UTM: 32U 342990 5913554