Blankenham / Blanckeham / Blanckenham / In den Hamme

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Hervormde kerk, Blankenham"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 March 2014 by Uberprutser [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hervormde_kerk,_Blankenham_3.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: INTERIEUR, OVERZICHT NAAR HET OOSTEN"

Image Source: digital image of a 22 June 1992 B&W photograph by A.J. van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_OVERZICHT_NAAR_HET_OOSTEN_-_Blankenham_-_20277088_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " Nederlands Hervormde Kerk: INTERIEUR, DOOPVONT (schaal of bekken), DOOPVONTHOUDER" -- the post-Reformation font in use [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a 22 June 1992 B&W photograph by A.J. van der Wal, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INTERIEUR,_DOOPVONT,_DOOPVONTHOUDER_-_Blankenham_-_20277091_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2022]

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FontID: 23867BLA

Church/Chapel: Hervormde kerk Blankenham

Church Patron Saints: [originally dedicated to St. Nicholas]

Church Location: Kerkbuurt 9, 8373 EG Blankenham, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 6 33609556

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Overijssel

Directions to Site: Located off (E) road N351, 13-14 km NE of Emmeloord, since 1973 in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 20 km W of Steenkijk

Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Gothic

Church Notes: original church dedicated to St Nicholas documented 1418; 1816 church lost to a lightning strike; present church of 1893 -- listed church [Monumentnummer: 387546]

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A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 7 April 2022) provides a translation of the original Latin charter of foundation of the church at Blankenham on June 26th 1418 (Julian calendar) by the bishop of Utrecht, Frederik van Blankenheim: "Bishop Frederik gives permission to the people who live near the dike in the hamlet of “In den hamme” [i.e., Blankenham], and who now belong to the parish of Ysselhamme, to build a church with a baptismal font, a tower and a cemetery. This at their urgent request, because they live too far from the Ysselhammer church". The present whereabouts of that baptismal font are not know. The present font in this church is a small post-Reformation basin [cf. ImagesArea].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.765562, 5.897713

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 45′ 56.02″ N, 5° 53′ 51.77″ E

UTM: 31U 695496 5850129