Lixhe / Leisj / Liesce / Lieze

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human figure - head - 4

[cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "Church of Saint Lambert in Lixhe, Visé, Liège, Belgium"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Saint Lambert in Lixhe, Visé, Liège, Belgium"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 February 2008 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lixhe_-_Eglise_Saint-Lambert.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 02868LIX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Lambert
Church Location: rue de Lixhe, 4600 Visé, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 4 379 17 30
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Lixhe is located off the N602, 8-10 km S of Maastricht, almost on the border line between Flanders and Wallonia
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Cognate Fonts: Hastieres, Ciney, etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult o Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Font Notes:
Included by Cloquet (1895) among the round fonts of the Mosan type with four human heads, at 90-degree angles, on the basin sides. Mentioned in L. Cloquet in Travaux des sociétés savantes, Revue de l'Art chrétien (p. 419): "Citons avec le chanoine Corblet les cuves de Herckenradt, Hoesselt, Hansbrouck (Limbourg), Liesce [...]" [https://books.google.ca/books?id=_xxGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=Hansbrouck+%22Corblet%22&source=bl&ots=2pGrCRG-e9&sig=ACfU3U0pXpIWqHaNVI-Re9higMyDH5dypw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAnb6G5MrzAhUOk2oFHS2eCIAQ6AF6BAggEAM#v=onepage&q=Hansbrouck%20%22Corblet%22&f=false] [accessed 14 October 2021]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.754972, 5.679261
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 17.9″ N, 5° 40′ 45.34″ E
UTM: 31U 688977 5626000

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, pierre mosan
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 318