Bingelrade / Bèngelder / Binghenrode

The DBNL [Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren] entry for this church [https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_voo016voor07_01/_voo016voor07_01_0013.php] [accessed 24 November 2023] reports a baptismal font made of marble in the 18th century and a wall-mounted Roman or early-Germanic mortar serving as holy-water stoup in this church ]"Marmeren doopvont (XVIII A); ingemetseld als wijwatervat een Romeinschen of vroeg-Germaanschen vijzel"]. A baptismal font in this church, a quadrangular brick object with a dome metal cover is illustrated in the Kerkgebouwen-in-limburg [https://www.kerkgebouwen-in-limburg.nl/kerken/bingelrade/lambertus] [accessed 24 November 2023]; this 'font' appears to contain the surviving fragment of the medieval font [cf. ImagesArea]. Noted in Schönlank-van der Wal (1999) [Artikel Doopvonten Maasgouw 1999.pdf] [accessed 24 November 2023] as a font regretfully relegated to the outside of the church at the time; the article includes two illustrations of the font showing what appears to be a fragment [about 1/2] of the basin wall-mounted outside the church; the fragment shows a human head and a Greek potent cross on the sides. A 1995 article 'Het nieuwe en het ouude doopvont', in 1935 60 JAAR PAROCHIEKERK H. LAMBERTUS BINGELRADE 1995 [cf. ImagesArea' includes a blurry photograph of the old font as it must have been ca. 1935(?), disused, on a field or garden. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 9 January 2023) notes: "thirteenth century (1200-1250) font at Bingelrade. It is of the Rhine-Mosan group (coined by Jean-Claude Ghislain), that ends the period of romanesque Mosan fonts"; it also updates the earlier information: "Today, I received new information. The basin was dug up during the enlargement of the Dorpstraat, in the vicinity of the old vicarage. It was then moved as a flower box under a cross along the road Merkelbeekerstraat at Schinveld. Now it is installed inside the church." [NB: the updated information was conveyed to Pol Herman in an e-mail from Luc Wolters [luc.wolters@hetnet.nl]. Pol Herman adds, "It resembles Romanesque Mosan fonts found in Germany. "