Enghien
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2025
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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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2025
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03048ENG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (?), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Nicolas / Sint-Niklaaskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicolas of Myre
Church Address: Pl. Pierre Delannoy 2, 7850 Enghien, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 2 395 92 36
Site Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N7-N55 crossroads, about 30 km SW of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 573402 5616223
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.693197, 4.039239
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 41′ 35.51″ N, 4° 2′ 21.26″ E
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, p. 775 footnote 3
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.