Wijchen

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Rooms-Katholieke Kerk en Rooms-Katholieke Pastorie: Rooms-Katholieke Kerk te Wijchen 1846, grijs gewassen penseeltekening van Schevichoven N.M.Commanderij 235" [NB: this church would be demolished -except for the tower- and replaced by a new church in 1853]

Image Source: digital image of a February 1976 B&W photograph by A.J. van der Wal of a 1846 drawing in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rooms-Katholieke_Kerk_te_Wijchen_1846,_grijs_gewassen_penseeltekening_van_Schevichoven_N.M.Commanderij_235_-_Wijchen_-_20255917_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " R.K. kerk van de H. Antonius Ab, Wijchen." [NB: the new church of 1853]

Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2016 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:39631_R.K._kerk_van_de_H._Antonius_Abt.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Rooms-Katholieke Kerk en Rooms-Katholieke Pastorie: interieur van het hoofdaltaar"

Image Source: digital image of a January 1977 B&W photograph by A.J. van der Wal of a January 1977 B&W photograph by A.J. van der Wal n the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_van_het_hoofdaltaar_-_Wijchen_-_20255930_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font in use in this church

Image Source: digital photograph in Kerkfotografie Nederland [https://kerkfotografie.nl/heilige-antonius-abt-wijchen/] [accessed 9 April 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23872WIJ

Church/Chapel: Rooms Katholieke Sint-Antonius-Abt-kerk [new church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]

Church Location: Oosterweg 2, 6602 HD Wijchen, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 24 641 2627

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Gelderland

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the S326, 6-7 km W of Nijmegen

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

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

Church Notes: medieval (Romanesque) church with a tower; church demolished but tower saved and raised; current church built 1853 in the old cemetery gounds; renovated and expanded 1939 - listed church [Monumentnummer: 39632]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 7 April 2022) refers to M. Schönlank-van der Wal's Middeleeuwse stenen doopvonten in Gelderland, in Bulletin Stichting Oude Gelderse Kerken [ISSN 1386.6427], 2001-najaarsnummer (jrg 27), blz. 3-17. Page 8, where the author reports an octagonal shaft, fragment of a stone baptismal font of the 15th-16th century, originally the church demolished in 1853. The fragment is housed in the rectory [address: Oosterweg 4, 6602 HD, Wijchen, right next to the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.806389, 5.726389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51°48' 23.0" N, 5° 43' 35.0" E

UTM: 31U 687958 5743020

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone