Opprebais No. 1 / Ôprèbay

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the arches at the far end of the sides do not rest on columns, so, although there are four arches per side, there are only three full columns for them

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A067786]

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human figure - head - detail

Scene Description: showing the 'leaf' below the head

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human figure - male - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A067788]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "le choeur polygonal gothique date du XVIe siècle; les trois nefs de quatre travées sont de 1737 et 1738; la façade et la tour de Coulon E. datant de 1864"

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by G. Wastiau [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M69071]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by G. Wastiau [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M69072]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10797OPP
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Aubin
Church Patron Saints: St. Aubin [aka Albinus of Angers]
Church Location: rue du Moulin, Opprebais, Incourt, Brabant Wallon, Belgique
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Incourt, near Jodoigne, arrondissement of Nivelles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1165-1175? [Ghislain]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Wauthier-Braine, nearby
Described and illustrated in Ghislain (1986) as a Romanesque baptismal font probably of the mid-12th century, of the Mosan group, in the 'namurois' style; the four heads and the blind arcade that decorate the basin are very similar to those on the Wauthier-Braine font. Noted in Drake (2002) [the name appears as "Oprebais" in the text but "Opprebais" in the index]. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1165-1175, a font consisting of a round basin with four human heads at 90-degree angles, an arcades of round arches on columns with capitals and bases between them; raised on a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes, the latter questioned in Ghislain (ibid.) as probable replacements; on a square lower with mouldings around the bases of the columns, and a leaf at each angle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40' 54.32" N, 4° 47' 43.45" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm***
Diameter (includes rim): 83 cm** / 83 cm***
Basin Total Height: 35 cm***
Height of Central Column: 40 cm***
Height of Side Columns: 40 cm***
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm* / 95 - 97.5 cm** / 97.5 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA (Brussels, Belgium) / ** Ghislain (1986: 92, 103 fn14) [NB:Ghislain (ibid.) points out an error in the measurement [106 cm] given in Tollenaere (1957) for this font] / *** Ghislain (2009: 177)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, not even a handle on it; modern;

REFERENCES

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; r["References"]
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009