Zonhoven No. 1 / Zonôf

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animal - mammal - lion - head - inverted - vegetation stemming from mouth

Scene Description: on two of the sides of the basin, alternating with the two that have arcades on them [NB: the source photograph displays the image inverted; it has been corrected here to show its actual position on the font]

Image Source: inverted image of a B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A044126]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: after the 1916 restoration of the font -- on two of the sides of the basin, alternating with the two that have lion heads with acanthus vine

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A044119]

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B012732]

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Scene Description: on the ground, beside the base of the baptismal font -- Source caption: "Church of Saint Quentin in Zonhoven, Limburg, Belgium. Chronogram of the roman baptismal font. [...] Sint-Quintinuskerk in Zonhoven. Chronogram aan de voet van de romaanse doopvont."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2011 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zonhoven_-_Sint-Quintinuskerk15.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2015]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: this is probably the first time the font at Zonhoven made its appearance in print

Image Source: illustration in Schaepkens (1869)

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view of church exterior - tower

Scene Description: the late-Gothic tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2006 by Paul Hermans [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Oude_toren_zonhoven.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2008 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zonhoven_-_Sint-Quintinuskerk.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2011 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zonhoven_-_Sint-Quintinuskerk7.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A044124]

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view of font

Scene Description: the baptismal font as it was before the 1916 restoration

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B012732]

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view of font

Scene Description: the baptismal font after its 1916 restoration

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A044125]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 February 2011 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zonhoven_-_Sint-Quintinuskerk14.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03660ZON

Church/Chapel: Kerk Sint-Kwinten / Sint-Quintinuskerk / Eglise paroissiale Saint-Quentin

Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]

Church Location: 3520 Zonhoven, Limbourg, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Brabant

Directions to Site: Located near Hasselt

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Historical Region: La Campine

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1155-1160?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: church here in the 8thC subordinate to Hasselt; independent parish church in the 12thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A brief illustrated entry in the Revue de l'art chrétien (1869) by Schaepkens reported the baptismal font of the church at Zonhoven "délaissés aujourd'hui dans la cour d'une auberge. Cette cuve, dépourvue des colonnettes qui la soutenaient, est carrée, évassée par la haut. Les grossiers dessins de l'une des faces accusent nettement l'époque romane", after which Schaepkens (ibid.) decries this "sorte de profanation" of ancient baptismal fonts in many places, taken out of the churches and put to the most degrading uses, "servant parfois aux usages les plus immondes". There are two entries in the Bulletin de la Société scientifique et littéraire du Limbourg related to the baptismal font at Zonhoven; the first (Bulletin de la Société, vol. 13 (1874: 252), is a communication about the font and its location at the time: "M. Schuermans signale les intéressants fonts baptismaux romans provenant de l'église de Zonhoven et dont le calice se trouve actuellement dans la cour d'un cabaret voisin. Il prie M. le Gouverneur de vouloir bien faire des démarches pour sauver ce monument"; the second entry appears in the next issue of that journal (Bulletin de la Société, vol. 14 (1878: xvi): "Fonts baptismaux romans à Zonhoven. Il résulte d'une communication de l'administration communale de Zonhoven que les débris des fonts baptismaux romans, et dont le calice se trouve dans la cour d'un cabaret, seront restitués à l'église propriétaire -- Pris pour information." Noted and illustrated in Cloquet (1890), after Schaepkens; the characteristic upside-down lion head with foliage is described in Cloquet as a "tête bestiale". Noted and illustrated with a 1910 photograph in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [no. 77732], with date 1101-1200, before the 1916 restoration. Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan font consisting of a square basin mounted on a multisupport base. Noted in Ghislain (1986) as one of a group of Mosan fonts [Achêne, Asselt, Bastogne, Gentinnes and Zonhoven] that include the motif of a feline head with branches of palmette and/or grape-vines stemming from its mouth. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the surviving basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160, that had been found in a farm near the church being used as a "bac de pompe à eau" at the time [cf. supra]; it was restored in 1916.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.99151, 5.36798

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 29.44″ N, 5° 22′ 4.73″ E

UTM: 31U 666181 5651550

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm**

Basin Depth: 27 cm**

Basin Total Height: 39 cm**

Height of Central Column: 47.5 cm**

Height of Side Columns: 47.5 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm* / 100 cm**

Trapezoidal Basin: 80.5 x 81 x 82 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [no. 77732] [measurement taken in 1910, before the 196 restoration of the font] / ** Ghislain (2009: 213) [Ghislain's measurements correspond to the restored font after 1916]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: falt and round; modern

REFERENCES

Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; r["References"]

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; r["References"]

Schaepkens, Arn., "Anciens fonts baptismaux de Zonhoven", XIII, 1869, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1869, pp. 203-204; r["References"]