Flostoy / Flostwè
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view of font and cover
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human figure - head - male - bearded - with moustache - 4
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: palmette-like in the spandrels of the arcade
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "église fondée au XIe siècle, restaurée au XVIIIe, en 1877 et en 1958-1959."
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of stoup - detail
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view of stoup
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the bases of the columns
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00823FLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1155-1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: Goesnes, Bastogne, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Remy
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Address: 5370 Flostoy (Havelange), Belgium
Site Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the N97, SW of the N983, S of Havelange and in its municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Notes:
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Noted in Van de Casteele (1877). Cloquet (1895: 318) includes the font at Flostoy among the round fonts of the Mosan type ornamented with four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin. Enlart (1902) describes the base as having "cinq supports" but is confusing about the actual shape, Mosan in one reference, Tournai in another. Bond (1908) calls it Tournai, after Enlart and therefore not a trustworthy description. 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. 1155-1160, with decoration that can be related to that on the fonts at Gerpinnes, Goesnes, Ohey, Bléhen, Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, Wellin, etc. Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10012745] [accessed 20 April 2023] as a baptsmal font made of stone between 1130 and 1150; the brass cover is dated to possibly the 17th century.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 3 January 2026) adds information about a holy-water stoup in the church: "In this church, there is also a limestone, gothic, octagonal, Mosan-type stoup with four heads. I think the base is not the original one. It is unusual because it carries no profile on top of the basin that normally forms a kind of bonnet above the heads. The hairstyle is therefore visible. Also, the profiles cut lower on the basin do not run parallel. The material contains a lot of (white) fossils, which could indicate the use of lower quality limestone. I have not yet found anything similar. 16th century could be correct. https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10012744 Flostoy must have been a fairly important settlement. There was a big Roman villa. A hoard of 1200 Roman coins was found in 1836. Frankish cemetery. A hoard of 730 13th-century coins was found in 1883. 1243: John, dean, and the Council of Ciney confirmed that the parish of Flostoy had no other patron saint than the chapter of Saint-Paul of Liège, upon which the chapel of Barsy and Emeville (castle chapel) depended.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 3 January 2026) adds information about a holy-water stoup in the church: "In this church, there is also a limestone, gothic, octagonal, Mosan-type stoup with four heads. I think the base is not the original one. It is unusual because it carries no profile on top of the basin that normally forms a kind of bonnet above the heads. The hairstyle is therefore visible. Also, the profiles cut lower on the basin do not run parallel. The material contains a lot of (white) fossils, which could indicate the use of lower quality limestone. I have not yet found anything similar. 16th century could be correct. https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10012744 Flostoy must have been a fairly important settlement. There was a big Roman villa. A hoard of 1200 Roman coins was found in 1836. Frankish cemetery. A hoard of 730 13th-century coins was found in 1883. 1243: John, dean, and the Council of Ciney confirmed that the parish of Flostoy had no other patron saint than the chapter of Saint-Paul of Liège, upon which the chapel of Barsy and Emeville (castle chapel) depended.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this site and its objects
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, pierre mosan
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 28 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm* / 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) / ** Ghislain (2009: 135)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 205
- Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 318
- Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909, p. 30
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 3; p. 777 footnote 1; p. 782 footnote 2
- 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, catalogue entry no. 40, p. 135-136
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.
- Van de Casteele, D., "Fonts baptismaux à Huy, à Seraing et à Esneux", 13, Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 1877, pp. 195-214; p. 202