Hour / Hour-dilé-Houyet / Houyet

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animal - mammal - lion - head - vine - acanthus or grape - with fruit

Scene Description: in this case the vine does not stem from the centre lion's mouth, but it is attached to the odd hairy heads at the bottom corners

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97534]

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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97533]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the columns and tghe upper half of the lower base

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97533]

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head - grotesque or fantastic - vine stemming from the mouth - acanthus or grape - with fruit

Scene Description: these two are on the same side as the centre lion head; the bottom angles have a pair of grotesque hairy heads

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97534]

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head - grotesque or fantastic - vine stemming from the mouth - acanthus or grape - with fruit

Scene Description: three of the basin sides have a grotesque hairy head at the bottom left corner with a vine stemming from it

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97533]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the modern church -- Source caption: "L'ancienne église se trouvait dans l'actuel cimetière dont la chapelle serait l'ancien choeur reconstruit au XVIIIe siècle. L'église actuelle a été construite en 1857, augmentée d'un transept et d'un choeur en 1912-1913 par l'architecte namurois Lange."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97519]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the new church and the village of Hour, in the municipality of Houyet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2005 by David Edgar [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HourView.jpg] [accessed 5 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97520]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97521]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 9) [d'après Reusens]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97533]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B012962]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00825HOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 5563 Hour (Houyet), Belgique

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located W of the E411, in the municipality and SE of Houyet

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1155-1160?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font (Namurois)

Cognate Fonts: Gentinnes, Achene, etc.

Church Notes: The present church is modern; the site of the old church is now the cemetery of the new church

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The parish church of Hour is defined in Galliot (1788) as "une église entière érigée sous l'invocation de Saint Martin." The old font here is noted in Van de Casteele (1877). Enlart (1902) lists the font at Hour as a Tournai with a five-support base. Borchgrave d'Altena (1971) has an illustration of the Hour font showing two sides of square Mosan-type font mounted on a broad central column and four corner detached colonnettes [although at least one appears to be missing and another badly broken]; the left side of the basin has a single branch of acanthus or grape vine and the right side has a very Norman-looking lion head with more such vines [NB: Cloquet (1890) describes this as an upside-down lion's head with vegetation stemming from the mouth]. There is a metal dome cover on the font. Described and illustrated in Rosen (1929) as a baptismal font of the Mosan school. Noted in Ghislain (1986) as one of a handful of the Mosan-namurois fonts [Bastogne, Gentinnes, et Hanzinne, Hour and Saint-Séverin en Condroz, are the others] without arcade ornamentation. Noted and illustrated in Drake (2002). Noted and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), with date between 1101 and 1200; the brass cover on it is dated 18th-century. 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, all four sides decorated with slightly different combinations of animal heads and grape or acanthus vines; in one of them the lion (?) head is upright and at the centre of the basin side, with two arm-like extensions that cross diagonally to the lower corners, where a head lurks in each being attached to an ondulating vine loaded with fruit; the other other three sides are somewhat simpler but all include a combination of head(s) and vine(s).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm**

Basin Depth: 31.5 cm**

Basin Total Height: 40-43 cm**

Height of Central Column: 40.5 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm* [approx.] / 95-99 cm**

Trapezoidal Basin: 82-84 x 82-84 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * 150 cm tall including the cover, itself 55 cm tall approx. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)] / **Ghislain (2009: 155)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?

Material: metal, brass

Notes: A dome or dome-cylindrical cover of brass, with cross finial; 55 cm tall approx.

REFERENCES

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

Borchgrave d'Altena, Joseph de, comte, Fonts baptismaux romans conservés au Chateau d'Emptinne, Bruxelles: [s.n.], 1971

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

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

Gaillot, Charles-François-Joseph, Histoire générale, écclésiastique et civile de la ville et province de Namur, Liège; Bruxelles: Lemaire, 1788

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

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"]