Roermond No. 3 / Remunj

INFORMATION

Font ID: 24123ROE
Object Type: Stoup?
Object Details: mortar?
Museum: it the NOM Nederlands Openlucht Museum
Church / Chapel Name: Kartuizerklooster Bethlehem [aka Onze Lieve Vrouwe van Bethlehem] [now the diocesan offices]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: the monastery existed between 1376 and 1783; the site is now occupied by the Roermond diocesan offices
Church Address: Swalmerstraat-Bethlehemstraat, Roermond, Nederlands
Site Location: Limburg, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N280 [aka Hornenberg]. on the corner of the current Swalmerstraat and Bethlehemstraat, about 50 km ESE of Eindhoven
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Roermond
Additional Comments: re-cycled stoup (originally a mortar?)
Font Notes:
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 21 March 2022) notes: "At the NOM Nederlands Openlucht Museum is another medieval mortar that was used as a stoup. It was in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, but was transferred to the NOM museum. It is a Romanesque Mosan mortar from “a” Carthusian monastery at Roermond. The museum specifies “hardstone”, but in analogy to other mortars, it is probably Mosan micaceous sandstone of Westphalian type from Liège or surroundings (F. Tourneur, University of Liège). This mortar has typical schematic heads on the corners, and a frieze with oblique lines."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help with this stoup

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 708887 5675949
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.196708, 5.989839
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 11′ 48.15″ N, 5° 59′ 23.42″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone