Hensies / Hinzi / Inzî
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - 2
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Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M093872] by Brigitte Ugeux [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020985] [accessed 2 March 2025]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
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Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M093873] by Brigitte Ugeux [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020985] [accessed 2 March 2025]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: tiny human(?) heads at the upper corners of the basin; some damaged or broken off
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Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M093872] by Brigitte Ugeux [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020985] [accessed 2 March 2025]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: tiny human(?) heads at the lower corners of the basin; some damaged or broken off
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M093873] by Brigitte Ugeux [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020985] [accessed 2 March 2025]
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Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M093871] by Brigitte Ugeux [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020985] [accessed 2 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02844HEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Georges à Hensies
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: 12 rue Basse, 7359 Hensies, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 65 63 15 65
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the Hainaut province of SW Belgium, 20 km W of Mons, near de French border.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?) [basin only?], Romanesque [basin only?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Cognate Fonts: Cousolre, Ribemont, etc.
Font Notes:
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Cloquet (1895) describes the font at Hensies as having four sides, two of which with arcades similar to those found in the fonts at Cousolre and Ribemont; on another side two dragons whose necks intertwine like the ones at Lichterwelde and Gondecourt; human heads are placed at the angles; single pedestal base. In Ghislain (1986). Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020985] [accessed 2 March 2025]: "fonts baptismaux [...] Object: animal fantastique[ornement]. Object: tête humaine[ornement] [...] Date: 1101 - 1200 [...] hauteur: 94 cm".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 547347 5587025
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 316
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]; p. 94
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