Tourinnes-la-Grosse

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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - scallop - double - 2
BF01: cleric - bishop - seated - with staff
BH01: animal - mammal - bear or boar?
BH01: human figure - head - 4
BH01: human figure - male - head - bearded
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 06188TOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located SSE of Louvain
Historical Region: Brabant
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S nave, W end
Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font probably of the same date as the choir and transept of this church, the 13th century; it consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with a full figure holding a baculum, seated, perhaps a bishop, on the basin side; there is a deep scotia under the upper rim, interrupted at 90-degree angles by four heads; raised on a plain round pedestal base. Flat metal cover, appears modern. Illustrated in Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 37).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
metal?,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001
Barral i Altet, Xavier, Belgique romane, et Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1989