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

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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4

Scene Description: some damaged but the one on the foreground, right side, visible here
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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the columns and on the lower part
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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one of the four; at 90-degree angles
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view of church exterior - northwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean Housen, 2010
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10798ENN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Marguerite [orig. from Abbaye de Neufmoustier / Neumünster, Huy?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: 6940 Grande Enneille, Luxembourg, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the commune de Durbuy and 8 km WSW of Durbuy itself, about 40 km ESE of Namur
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur [originally Liège]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche at the W end of the nave until 1911, when the font was removed from it [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1160? [basin and lower base only]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin and lower base only], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain] / Mosan type?
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Wauthier-Braine, Russon, Flônes
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: the originally Romanesque church was restored 1633 and 1689; damaged in a 1777 storm; used as a storage barn during the Revolution; repaired 1815 and in the 1840s
Font Notes:
Baptismal font of the Romanesque period, probably 12th century, similar to the ones at Wauthier-Braine, Russon and Flônes: quadrangular basin with heads at 90-degree angles, and blind arcade on the sides; raised on a broad central shaft with thinner outer colonnettes, all of them with moulded bases. Noted in Tolenaere (1957) [cf. infra]. Listed in Ghislain (1986) as one of a group of Mosan fonts in the 'namurois' style. Noted and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), with provenance from the Abbaye de Neufmoustier, Huy, and date between 1100 and 1200. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a the basin and lower base of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160, the five columnar support being a later replacement; the font had been, notes Ghislain (ibid.), in a niche off the nave, from which it was removed in 1911; this author remarks on the similarity of details with, among other Condroz affiliation fonts, the one at Bléhen. Described and illustrated in Robert Didier, Françoise Leuxe et Jean-Luc Graulich's L’église d’Eneille: sa sculpture et son orfèvrerie [www.STADTAUS.com_eglise_ste_marguerite_eneille.pdf] [accessed 6 November 2021]: "Fonts baptismaux. Calcaire de Meuse, 89 cm (fût central et colonnettes renouvelées). Ecole mosane, début XIIe siècle. Par sa cuve cylindrique cantonnée de quatre têtes masculines et décorée, sur chaque face, de quatre arcatures soutenues par des colonnettes avec chapiteau à palmettes simplifiées, par le gros fût central flanqué de quatre colonnettes reposant sur une base carrée amortie, ces fonts baptismaux sont caractéristiques d’un type mosan dont relèvent ceux de Flostoy et de Pondrôme par exemple. L’austère simplicité des fonts des Enneilles est compensée par les quatre têtes sculptées rigoureusement, leur relative schématisation contribuant à en souligner la force expressive. La simplicité de ces fonts, le traditionalisme inhérent à ce genre de production rendent une datation précise malaisée. La datation proposée par L.Tollenaere (début XIIe siècle) serait peut-être à revoir." [cf. Index entries for Grande-Enneille Nos. 2 and 3 for two ancient stoups also in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.317078, 5.378623
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 19′ 1.48″ N, 5° 22′ 43.04″ E
UTM: 31U 669336 5576592

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Meuse)
Font Shape: round (mounted) (with heads)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm**
Basin Depth: 28 cm**
Basin Total Height: 32 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) / ** Ghislain (2009: 149)

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome with cross finial

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]; p. 92 and figs. 11, 12
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