Elversele
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12531] [accessed 10 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12531] [accessed 10 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12531] [accessed 10 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03047ELV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century (?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Robrecht Medo
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Margaretakerk Eversele
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antiochia
Church Address: Dorpstraat 13, 9140 Temse, Belgium
Site Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N41, about 25 km WSW of Antwerp
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Gand / Ghent
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings. Listed and illustrated in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12531] [accessed 10 March 2025] as a font made between 1501 and 1600 by Robrecht Medo; the source gives the height as "140 cm".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 579684 5663183
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.114583, 4.138417
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 6′ 52.5″ N, 4° 8′ 18.3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775 footnote 3
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.