Goesnes / Gœsnes / Gône / Gosnes

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animal - bird - dove - 2 - facing each other - eating acanthus fruit, arum or grapes?

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the basin -- the bird on the left has plumage carved in great detail, like the ones on the font at Gentinnes, but the bird on the right has detail only on the visible wing and tail; a lovely flower [or is it a chick ["oisillon"], as suggested in Ghislain (2009?] is placed above, in the spandrel created by the birds' heads; the bunch of fruit resembles more the arum frit of the acanthus than a bunch of grapes, but this may be stylised way of portraying grapes in the fonts of the Namurois

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1900 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003093]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

animal - bird - dove - 2 - facing each other - eating acanthus fruit, arum or grapes? - detail

Scene Description: notice the detailed carving on the bird on the left; by contrast, only the wing and tail of the bird on the right are detailed -- notice also the plugged holes in the upper rim, anchorage points for an earlier font

Image Source: digital photograph in the Portail de la Wallonie [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Namur/92097/92097-CLT-0007-01] [accessed 4 April 2015]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns - double columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: on two of the sides of the basin

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003092]

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: beneath the heads, forming the capital of the outer colonnettes

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003093]

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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74571]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74571]

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Portail de la Wallonie [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Namur/92097/92097-CLT-0007-01] [accessed 4 April 2015]

design element - motifs - palmette - trefoiled

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1900 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003092]

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human figure - male - head - 4

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74571]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapelle dédiée jadis à Notre-Dame. Trace de construction du XIIIe dans son choeur à chevet plat. Nef probablement allongée au XVIIe siècle. La dernière période de reconstruction remonte à la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle : on refit la façade ouest, on perça les quatre fenêtres de la façade sud et on restaura la charpente."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B047736]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B047735]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: church interior in 1973, before the 1990s renovation

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74558]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: church interior in 1973, before the 1990s renovation -- the baptismal font and its odd cover are visible in the northwest corner, beneath the gallery

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74569]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ronse (1929: fig. 6) [Photo documentation du Musée du Cinquantenaire]

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1900

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1900 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003092]

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1900

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1900 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003093]

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view of font

Scene Description: in 1971

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74571]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: the font standing at the centre aisle, as displayed after the 1990s renovation of the church [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Portail de la Wallonie [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Namur/92097/92097-CLT-0007-01] [accessed 4 April 2015]

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: the font standing at the centre aisle, as displayed after the 1990s renovation of the church [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Portail de la Wallonie [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Namur/92097/92097-CLT-0007-01] [accessed 4 April 2015]

view of font - southeast side

Scene Description: the font standing at the centre aisle, as displayed after the 1990s renovation of the church [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Portail de la Wallonie [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Namur/92097/92097-CLT-0007-01] [accessed 4 April 2015]

view of font and cover

Scene Description: in the northwest corner of the church, in 1973, before the 1990s renovation

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74569]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font standing at the centre aisle, as displayed after the 1990s renovation of the church

Image Source: digital photograph in the Portail de la Wallonie [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Namur/92097/92097-CLT-0007-01] [accessed 4 April 2015]

INFORMATION

FontID: 00383GOS

Church/Chapel: Chapelle [castrale?] Saint-Pierre [formerly Notre-Dame]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [formerly dedicated to St. Mary

Church Location: rue du Centre, n° 56, Goesnes, 5353 Ohey, Belgique

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off the N4, Andenne exit, after Haillot (dir. Ohey) [NB: the chapel is in the Ferme du Perron, rue du Pilori -- privately owned -- open Sat. & Sun. 10-8]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Historical Region: Le Condroz Namurois

Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel, in the NW corner of the nave, beneath the gallery, before 1990s -- afterwards at thw W end, centre aisle

Date: ca. 1160? [Ghislain] / ca. 1180-1190 [Pudelko] [basin and lower base only]

Century and Period: 12th century (mid? / late?) [basin and lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]

Cognate Fonts: Lustin, Flostoy, etc. [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Van de Casteele (1877). Included by Cloquet (1890 and 1895) among the round Mosan-type fonts with four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin. Same description in Enlart (1902), although in a later reference he describes it as Tournai with a five-column base. Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929). Pudelko's illustration (1932) matches the previous descriptions and shows one of the basin sides with two doves which have their beaks in a pommegranate (?); the heads at the basin corners appear rather hieratic; the columns of the base are plain as is the lower base and round plinth. Bond (1908) lists it among the Tournai fonts, using Enlart as source. In Ghislain (1986). Described and illustrated in Drake (2002). Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160, remarking on the similarities with the fragment at Ohey, as well as the fonts at Flostoy, Bléhen, Gerpinnes, Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, Saint-Nicolas-en-Glain, Wellin and Bastogne; Ghislain (209) notes that the central shaft and probably the outer colonnettes as well are modern replacements of the originals. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with salient heads at 90-degrees; the sides in between are decorated with 1)blind arcade, 2)palmette vine; 3)blind arcade; 4)facing doves eating from a bunch of arum or grapes suspended in the air; the base consists of a broad central shaft and four detached outer colonnettes with base mouldings that nake up the lower base together with the moulding of the central shaft. In 1973 the font was located at the northwest end of the nave, beneath the gallery. In the 1990s renovation of the church the font was moved to the centre aisle, still at the west end of the nave; the old wooden cover is no longer on it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.441981, 5.216524

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 26′ 31.13″ N, 5° 12′ 59.48″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen) / (pierre mosan)

Font Shape: round (with heads) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Basin Total Height: 38 cm*

Height of Central Column: 35 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009: 145)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; r["References"]

Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; r["References"]

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; r["References"]

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929

Van de Casteele, D., "Fonts baptismaux à Huy, à Seraing et à Esneux", 13, Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 1877, pp. 195-214; r["References"]