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design element - patterns - tracery

Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 October 2021)

human figure - male - head - bearded - tongue hanguing out

Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman

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view of basin - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph from Pol Herman [original source unknown]

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Scene Description: the basin ca. 2020, during its latest restoration

Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph from Pol Herman [original source unknown]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the basin ca. 2020, before its latest restoration

Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the basin ca. 2020, during its latest restoration

Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: " Sint-Ambrosiuskerk in Rummen"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2007 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rummen_-_Sint-Ambrosiuskerk.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2021]

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Scene Description: showing the Rummen font in one of the early stages of its 'pilgrimage' [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph from Pol Herman [original source unknown]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03197RUM

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissale Saint-Ambroise de Rummen / Sint-Ambrosiuskerk in Rummen

Church Patron Saints: St. Ambrose

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for Rummen church] Rummen Kerk, 3454 Geetbets, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off the N716, in the municipality and 4-5 km E of Geetbets, 10 km WSW of Hasselt, 15 kms SE of Schaffen, 25-30 km NE of Tienes/Tirlemont.

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic? / Late Gothic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documentng this font

Church Notes: medieval church documented 1078;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Wauters (1887) and in Raeymaekers, in the Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 13, 1899 (22-26). Noted as one of several 14th-15th fonts mounted on square bases listed by Enlart (1902). A communication from Pol Herman [e-mail of 2 October 2021] informs that the font from Rummen has has had a complex trajectory: "Jean-Claude Ghislain defines the [font] as gothic, late 14th century. The font has been restored last year, because it had broken in several pieces.", and includes Ghislain notes [source not available] on this font: "Les fonts baptismaux proviennent de l'église paroissale Saint-Ambroise de Rummen. Après l'incendie de l'église en 1741, les fonts ont été transférés au Monastère d'Orient (Val des Vierges, Vallis virginum in Oriente). Après l'abolition de l'abbaye en 1796, conséquence retardée de l'édit de 1783 de l'empereur d'Autriche Joseph II, le complexe abbatial d'Orient fut vendu en 1798, et les fonts baptismaux étaient acquéris par la famille Vinckenbosch. Qui les donnaient à la ville de Tienen (Tirlemont). Puis, la cuve fut conservée dans l'église Saint-Germain de cette même ville. Uniquement la cuve a survécu. Le fût (et les 4 colonnettes éventuelles) est perdu. Le restaurateur pensait que la cuve consistait de plusieurs parties séparées, mais il a constaté que les fragments formaient un ensemble, qui s'est peut-être désintégré sous l'effet du gel. La fracture principale en dessous de la cuve ne semble pas le résultat d'un impact. Bizzarement, les 4 quatres têtes (dont une tire la langue) ne se trouvent pas aux angles, mais au plein milieu de chaque face de la cuve carrée. Dans un document qui décrits des fouilles archéologiques à Rummen, les fonts sont attribués au XII-XIIIe siècle. Le décor de la cuve, et l'exécution des têtes me semblent contredire cette hypothèse : je pense que les cuves sont au moins gothiques, tardifs même."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.89182, 5.16321

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 30.55″ N, 5° 9′ 47.56″ E

UTM: 31U 652137 5640024

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Diameter (inside rim): 77 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 127 cm* [diagonal max.]

Basin Total Height: 56 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 90 x 90 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Raeymaekers (1897)

REFERENCES

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