Villers-devant-Orval / Florenville / Abbaye d'Orval

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09580VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: [in the ruins of the old abbey]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne
Font Location in Church: [originally from the abbey church?]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church Notes: abbey founded in the late-12th century, but there may have been an earlier chapel here in Merovingian times; destroyed in the mid-13th century; re-built in the 14th century; destroyed again in the French Revolution; reconstructed in the 20th century by Trappist order; medieval ruins extant
Font Notes:
A font-like object is now used as a garden fountain in the ruins of the Abbaye d'Orval; the object consists of a round basin with four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles, a series of round arch-heads on the sides between; metal spouts have been added into the mouths of the heads; reised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base ; set inside a larger polygonal tank. It is not clear whether or not this basin was ever used as a baptismal font, but its appearance is in keeping with late-Gothic variants of a font design common to this area and the Ardennes.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.639722, 5.348889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 38′ 23″ N, 5° 20′ 56″ E
UTM: 31U 669585 5501224

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (with heads) - mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)