Utrecht No. 6

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Gezicht op de Geertekerk aan het Geertekerkhof te Utrecht uit het noordoosten [...] De originele tekening is beschreven onder cat.nr. 37503. De prentbriefkaart is uitgegeven als nr. 3 in de 1e reeks, door de Commissie voor de restauratie der Geertekerk te Utrecht."

Image Source: digital image of a [ca. 1710-1730] drawing [prentbriefkaart naar tekening] by A. Rademaker in the Het Utrechts Archief [GUID: EDCDA4271CDB558CA7F18772C73C8A5F, HUA Catalog number: 603324] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HUA-603324-Gezicht_op_de_Geertekerk_aan_het_Geertekerkhof_te_Utrecht_uit_het_noordoosten.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Geertekerkhof te Utrecht in Nederland"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2011 by Antoine.01 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geertekerkhof_Utrecht_Nederland.JPG] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Geerte Kerk En Toren: interieur" -- notice the stone support of the pulpit (left) and the bmodern aptismal font that is partially visible on the right fo the image, in November 1957

Image Source: digital image of a November 1957 B&W photograph by G.Th. Delemarre, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Utrecht_-_20234327_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: Source caption: "Geerte Kerk En Toren: preekstoel" -- the upper section of the stone support has been claimed as the remains of a baptismal font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an April 1924 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interieur_-_Utrecht_-_20234346_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of church interior - pulpit - detail

Scene Description: Source caption in Pol Herman: "On the website of the Utrechts Archief, there is a picture n° 87742 of : Romanesque baptismal font as support of the pulpit."

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph in the Utrechts Archief [n° 87742] [received from Pol Herman]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Geerte Kerk En Toren: zuidoostelijke hoek van het zuidertransept, gevolgen van geen goot" -- the baptismal font seen here in the southeast corner of the south transept in 1977; this font is modern

Image Source: digital image of a May 1977 B&W photograph by Ton Schollen, in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zuidoostelijke_hoek_van_het_zuidertransept,_gevolgen_van_geen_goot_-_Utrecht_-_20234353_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24447UTR

Church/Chapel: Geertekerk

Church Location: Geertekerkhof 23, 3511 XC Utrecht, Netherlands

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Utrecht

Directions to Site: Located off the S area of Utrecht city centre

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic

Church Notes: original medieval church moved inside the city walls between 1248 and 1249; much modified since; after the Reformation was successively used as a Reformed church, stable, barracks, warehouse and from 1814 to 1930 again as a Reformed church; temporary refuge for victims of the 1855 Rhine flood; in ruins late-1948; restored 1956 -- listed church [Rijksmonument 36108]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A number of objects are noted inside this church as baptismal fonts [cf. infra for Pol Herman's information]; the object clearly identifiable as a baptismal font cosnsists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with four large symbols on the sides, one of them an ox or bull's head, the others likely the symbols of the other three Evangelists; on a pedestal base of clustered colonnettes; no cover present; it is [was?] located in the southeast corner of the south transept in 1977 [cf. ImagesArea]. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 26 July 2022) includes a number of sources related to a font inside this church: "Source: Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel I. De provincie Utrecht. W. Leijdenroth, Utrecht 1908. Pulpit (XVI d) on sandstone column (of the baptismal font). On the website of the Utrechts Archief, there is a picture n° 87742 of : Romanesque baptismal font as support of the pulpit. It is clear that this is not a Romanesque object, it is gothic. I don’t know if it is a baptismal font. If it is, it is unique, I do not recognize anything similar in Belgium and in the Netherlands. The interior of the church had been destroyed during the iconoclasm of August 1566. Supposing the old baptismal font had been lost at that moment, this gothic object could make sense as a replacement of the older font. The church has been transferred to the reformed faith in 1580. In the 1950’s, the church had become a ruin, only the walls were still standing. It was restored, and the pulpit (if it still existed at that time) was replaced by the 1652 pulpit of the church of Zevenhuizen. Since then, the “baptismal font” is lost."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.084444, 5.120556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 4″ N, 5° 7′ 14″ E

UTM: 31U 645295 5772552