Awirs / Les Awires / Les Awirs / Aywiers

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

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

Scene Description: this fragment is located on the south side of the tower

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of three fragments built into the tower wall; shown here the head is at the bottom right-hand corner, by the drain pipe

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Charles Mahaux, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M83140]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: this fragment is located on the south side of the tower

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human figure - head

Scene Description: the third of the three fragments; this one is built into the southwest angle of the tower

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view of basin - fragment - 2

Scene Description: seen here, built into the south wall of the tower: above and left is the larger fragment, a human head and two round arches from the side arcade -- at about the same horizontal level, at the right [southwest] angle of the tower wall, is another huma head, seen here in profile

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Charles Mahaux, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M83142]

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view of church exterior - tower - southwest view

Scene Description: the fragments of the font are built into the tower wall; one is at the southwest angle, down from the clock, just west of the drain pipe

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Charles Mahaux, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M83157]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the mid-18th century font and cover of this church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10803AWI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Etienne
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: 4400 Les Awirs, Liège, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of, and near Flémalle, and Liège
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1160-1165?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Romanesque / Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Noted in Ghislain (1986) as the fragment of a Romanesque baptismal font of the Mosan-namurois type, its decoration similar to that on the fonts at Wauthier-Braine, Opprebais, Grande-Enneille and Villers-la-Ville: heads at 90-degree angles on the round basin, the sides decorated with a blind arcade of round arches. In his later work of 2009 the fragments of this font are catalogued and illustrated as being part of a Gothic font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160-1165, "une version simplifiée probablement tardive".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 669841 5608094

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: round (mounted) (with heads)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

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"]