Marche-en-Famenne No. 1
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Results: 16 records
animal - mammal - lion - couchant or protome - 4
Scene Description: the back part of the lions' bodies appears to wrap on both sides of the colonnettes
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35344.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled
Scene Description: one on each side of the central shaft and of the outer colonnettes
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35344.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 4
Scene Description: a tiny one on each of the lower frames of the main shaft panels
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35344.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the sides of the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35344.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Remacle; Marche-en-Famenne; Luxembourg, Belgium; ref: PM_035343_B_Marche_en_Famenne; ; Fonds baptismal remontant au XVIe s. (école mosane)"
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design element - patterns - tracery
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35343.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four, each different from the others
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35343.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four, each different from the others
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35348.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four, each different from the others
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marche_en_Famenne_B_PM_035346.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35338.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Remacle; Marche-en-Famenne; Luxembourg, Belgium. Interior"
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:83034-CLT-0001-01-Marche-en-Famenne_Eglise_Saint-Remacle-PM_35341.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: photograph of the museum replica copy
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 29)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Remacle; Marche-en-Famenne; Luxembourg, Belgium; ref: PM_035342_B_Marche_en_Famenne; ; Fonds baptismal remontant au XVIe s. (école mosane)"
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Remacle; Marche-en-Famenne; Luxembourg, Belgium; ref: PM_035345_B_Marche_en_Famenne; ; Fonds baptismal remontant au XVIe s. (école mosane)"
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Remacle à Marche-en-Famenne (province de Luxembourg, Belgique)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean Housen, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2018 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20180708_marche-en-famenne039.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Remacle à Marche-en-Famenne (province de Luxembourg, Belgique)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean Housen, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 8 July 2018 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20180708_marche-en-famenne040.jpg] [accessed 5 January 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05902MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: [copy at the form. Musée Cinquantenaire]
Church/Chapel: Eglisse paroissiale Saint-Remacle de Marche-en-Famenne
Church Patron Saints: St. Remaclus [aka Remacle, Remaculus, Rimagilus (d. 673)]
Church Location: place Roi Albert, Marche-en-Famenne
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the N4-N86 crossroads, about 50 km SE of Namur, in the NW reaches of the Ardennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Date: 1590?
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font / Ardennes type
Cognate Fonts: fonts at Fallais, Weert, etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: altered font? [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: 9thC wooden oratory; re-built as Romanesque church; destroyed by fire 1484; re-building completed 1540; after several fires and restorations a major restoration of late-19thC; again 1930s -- listed church [http://lampspw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_ipic/index.php/fiche/index?codeInt=83034-INV-0123-02] [accessed 5 January 2022]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the 13th century in the Gothic style [but it is of much later date, late-16th century]; octagonal basin with four human heads set at 90-degree angles, not at the corners; the panels of the basin sides are ornamented with late-Gothic tracery; the underbowl is octagonal but rounded and plain; the base has two volumes; the upper one is square and narrower, with four poligonal colonnettes at the corners and Gothic windows on the sides of these shafts as well as on the sides of the main shaft; there is a tiny square flower on each bottom side of the frame; at the foot of this part the base widens; the upper corners of the lower volume have each a sedente lion or protome, the sides between graded. Metal cover [brass?] of hemispherical shape with a foliated cross finial. [NB: Ronse notes that his illustration [cf. supra] is of the copy at the Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels].
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: 50.227992, 5.343905
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 13' 40.8" N, 5° 20' 38.1" E
UTM: 31U 666462 5565327
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929