Rutten / Russon
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Results: 12 records
BH01: human figure - male - head - bearded
Scene Description: broken nose, right eye completely asymetrical
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077788]
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BH02: human figure - male - head
Scene Description: odd hairline; is he wearing a cap?
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077789]
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BH03: cleric - bishop - head - wearing mitre
Scene Description: notice the two aligned metal staples above
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077790]
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BH04: human figure - male - head - bearded - moustache
Scene Description: another broken noes
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077791]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with captals and bases
![thirteen arches in total, as one of the sides -tgis oner- has four, while the other three sides have three arches each [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150412018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: thirteen arches in total, as one of the sides -tgis oner- has four, while the other three sides have three arches each [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché cliché B077787]
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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1969 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077786]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1969 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077786]
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design element - motifs - palmette - trefoiled
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché cliché B077787]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "De kerk heeft een Romaanse westertoren,grotendeels in silex-blokken,uit de 12e eeuw,een classicistisch schip,van 1844. Aan de toren werden reeds herstellingswerken in de 14e eeuw uitgevoerd:het groot gotisch venster dateert uit die tijd."
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077782]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: photographed after the 1967 renovation
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 by Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M35120]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 by Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M35121]
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view of font
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B077786]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00827RUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Martinus / Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Sint-Evermarusstraat 3, Rutten, 3700 Tongeren, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Limburg, Brabant
Directions to Site: Located bettween the N20 (W) and the N69 (E), in the municipality and 3-4 km SSW of Tongeren
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1160-1165?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: Lustin, Gerpinnes, Crosnes, Flostoy, etc.
Church Notes: Romanesque tower of the 12thC; neo-Classical church
Font Notes:
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Noted in Van de Casteele (1877), a font after those at Schayes, Reusens et Schaepkens (1857). Enlart (1902) has it as a Tournai font with four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin and mounted on a five-support base. In Bond (1908), after Enlart. Cloquet (1890) dates the font to the 16th century. Ghislain (1986) notes the low mitre worn by one of the heads, similar to ones on the fonts at Gerpinnes and Saint-Nicolas en Glain. In Drake (2002) as a Mosan font, with sets of three arches between the heads [NB: one of the sides has four arches, to a totla of thirteen]. 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. 1160-65. No cover present but two metal staples in the upper rim are aligned for a lock of an old cover. Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/61730] [accessed 20 Aoril 2023] as a baptismal font made of limestone between 1101 and 1200; 90 cm tall.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.747486, 5.443156
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 50.95″ N, 5° 26′ 35.36″ E
UTM: 31U 672354 5624591
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: round (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Diameter (inside rim): 69 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm**
Basin Depth: 29.5 cm**
Basin Total Height: 39 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / 85 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA (Brussels, Belgium)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 418
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, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009
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