Enghien

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a 1942 B&W photograph [cliché B037361] in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020015] [accessed 10 March 2025]

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view of font cover and crane

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Image Source: digital image of a 1942 B&W photograph [cliché B092621] in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020016] [accessed 10 March 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03048ENG
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Nicolas / Sint-Niklaaskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicolas of Myre
Church Location: Pl. Pierre Delannoy 2, 7850 Enghien, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 2 395 92 36
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the N7-N55 crossroads, about 30 km SW of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (?), Late Gothic
Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts with ornamental mouldings. Listed and illustrated in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10020015] [accessed 10 March 2025]: "font baptismaux [...] Date: 1401 - 1600 [...] auteur: 119 cm".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.693197, 4.039239
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 41′ 35.51″ N, 4° 2′ 21.26″ E
UTM: 31U 573402 5616223

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 119 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1651-1710
Material: metal,
Apparatus: yes; side crane
Notes: multi-level moulded dome with cross finial

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-10 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.
KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-10 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.