Jodoigne / Djodogne / Geldenaken

Described in Ghislain (1986) as an exception to the more common type of Mosan font: this font and the one at Jupille [cf. Index entry] share some of the other characteristics, but do not have heads at the basin angles. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as fragments of the basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160; the fragments were dicovered in 1972 during excavations for the restoration of the church, buried under the central nave; Ghislain suggests the font may have been destroyed in the fires resulting from the wars of religion in 1568 and 1578; he describes the basin as circular with an arcade of round blind arches all around; the arches rest on well-rendered capitals, and there are trefoiled palmettes in the spandrels; fortunately a similar font has survived in better shape, the one from Jupille-sur-Meuse, which provides for a good sense of what this font looked like. Ghislain (ibid.) gives the location of the remaing fragments [one has disappeared] as "Presbytère" [i.e., the rectory/vicarage]. The BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), reports a stone baptismal font from the 18th century in this church.