Donstiennes nr. Thuin / Donstiene / Donstiène

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10067914] [accessed 9 August 2025]: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre calcaire, marbre [...] Date: 1201 - 1250 [...] hauteur: 102 cm". The KIK-IRPA entry gives reference to Jean-Claude GHISLAIN, « Fonts Baptismaux de Donstiennes » in Trésors d'art et d'histoire de la Thudinie. S.I., 1976, p. 106, n° 240. Baptismal font of the Mosan group, among the finest, according to Drake (2002: 176, etc.), a round basin with protruding heads mounted on a multi-support base. The basin is shallow and round, with four protruding heads at 90-degree angles, one of which, as Drake points out (ibid., p. 45 fn46) is female; the sides in between the heads are decorated with other motifs; shallow rounded underbowl; base consisting of a broad cylindrical shaft at the centre and four slender colonnettes that appear attached to it; the lower base has a moulded top marking the base of the columns and a plain square lower volume. The wooden cover is flat and modern [source illustration: 'Étude des potentialités urbanistiques et patrimoniales de l'entité de Thuin (partie 1): La section de Donstiennes' in www.espace-environnement.be/missions/vds /pdf with photograph by S. Snyders]