Fallais / Falau / Fallaix

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - scroll - in a circle - 4

Scene Description: seen here St John's in the centre panel

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - 4

Scene Description: an unidentified animal protome/couchant at each of the corners of the square lower base

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coat of arms - Burgundy

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - column - 4

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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

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design element - motifs - tracery - trefoiled

Scene Description: on ead of the four sides of the pedestal base

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design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit

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design element - patterns - tracery

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of stoup

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03177FAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise de l'Assomption de Notre-Dame / Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Tenhemelopnemingskerk in Fallais
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise 4260, 4260 Maison communale de Braives, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located W of the N64, in the municipality of Braives, 10 km NNW of Huy, about 25 km W of Liège.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 14th or 15th century marble font mounted on a five-support base with heads at the corners of the basin. The Braives web site [www.braives.be] informs that the font has the coat arms of Burgundy [Bourgogne]. Listed and illustrated in BALaT-KIK IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002766] [accessed 5 January 2022], with date 1501-1600. In a communication related to the baptismal font at Weert from Pol Herman (e-mail of 30 December 2022) a comparison is established between that font and the one at Fallais: "The sixteenth-century baptismal font of Fallais is more comparable. I think Fallais' baptismal font may have come from the same workshop as Weert. Foot and column are similar. The basin shows the four evangelists and coats of arms, just like in Weert. One of the coats of arms has been identified as belonging to the Bourgogne family. The Bourgogne family became Lord of the impressive castle of Fallais from 1501. The first lord was Baudoin de Bourgogne, bastard son of Philip the Good. He already died in 1508. He probably did not give the baptismal font. After that, Jacques de Bourgogne was the most famous lord of the castle, between 1542 and 1557. He was a friend of Calvin and already joined Calvinism in 1543. In March 1543 he therefore had to flee to Cologne. He then went to live in Basel, Geneva and Strasbourg, where he died. So he will not have donated the baptismal font either. Remains : Philippe of Burgundy, Lord of Fallais between 1509 and 1542, a bachelor." The BALaT-KiIK IRPA (idid.) lists also a holy-water stoup of about the same date ["Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 100.5 cm; largeur: 40.5 cm]] in this church. A communication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 January 2024) notes on the presence of lions on the bases of several fonts: "The 4 lions at the corners, along with the gothic arches on the sides of the column, can (only) be found on the fonts of: Weert (lions have been chopped off during the iconoclastic fury), installed probably around 1512; Marche-en-Famenne, probably around 1520; Fallais, probably after 1509 and Glons".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.60998, 5.17115
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 36′ 35.93″ N, 5° 10′ 16.14″ E
UTM: 31U 653615 5608705

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT-KIK IRPA

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902