Ostiches / Ostiche

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2008 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ostiches_E1a.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: unknown source [probably BALaT]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 09502OST

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre / Sint Pieterskerk / Eglîje Sint-Pîre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Pl. d'Ostiches 2, 7804 Ath, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located N of highway A8/E429, 4-5 km SW of Lessines, 4-5 km N of Ath/Aat, about 55 km WSW of Brussels

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1597

Century and Period: 16th century(late) [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: present church is 1827 re-building

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the web page for Le Pays d'Ath [www.ath.be] as being a baptismal font dated in part to 1597. Information supplied 6 September 2021 by Pol Herman notes it is a composite font: - BALaT dates it 1491 - 1550. - The crude octagonal font is later, but not visually datable. - The base is late-Renaissance (triangular diamond-shaped ornaments, but multiple and at different heights). - Le Patrimoine Monumental de la Belgique notes: "Fonts baptismaux gothiques, fin XVs.-déb. XVIs., à cuve remaniée"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.678333, 3.759167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 42″ N, 3° 45′ 33″ E

UTM: 31U 553638 5614330

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]