Tourinnes-la-Grosse

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Results: 7 records

B01: design element - motifs - scallop - double - 2

Scene Description: two bands of double-scallop motif, face-to-face

BF01: cleric - bishop - seated - with staff

Scene Description: tentative identification

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1989

Image Source: Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 37) [detail]

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BH01: animal - mammal - bear or boar?

Scene Description: one of the four heads on the upper basin side; the others are human

BH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the upper basin side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1989

Image Source: Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 37) [detail]

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BH01: human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: two of them, perhaps a third one as well

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1989

Image Source: Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 37) [detail]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1989

Image Source: Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 37)

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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
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