Kortessem / Kotsoeve

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Results: 11 records

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BBU01: design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005

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BH01: human figure - male - head?

Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005

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BH02: human figure - female? - head

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BH03: human figure - male - head?

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BH04: human figure - female? - head

Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005

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view of base - lower base

Scene Description: the lower base of an earlier font [13th-century?], with a stem and basin of the 16th century [cf. FontNotes]; notice that the original font was supported on five columns

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Marc Robben

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2007 by Sonuwe [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Kortessem_-_Sint-Pieterskerk.jpg] [accessed 4 January 2012]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the marks carved for the angle colonnettes on the lower base

Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005

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view of font and cover

Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Marc Robben

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Marc Robben

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10918KOR

Church/Chapel: Sint-Pieterskerk [aka Kerk Sint-Petrus]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Kerkplein 1 B-3720 Kortessem, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N20-N76 crossroads, 6 km SSE of Hasselt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N side of the transept

Century and Period: 13th century [lower base only] -- 16th century[basin and base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Miel Erpelinck, and to Marc Robben for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baptismal font in this church consists of an octagonal basin with curved underbowl; on alternate sides of the upper basin sides are protruding heads, which appear to be two male and two female, all wearing some sort of head-dress; there are metal staples from the old cover at opposite ends of the upper rim; the inner well of the basin is round; the basin is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; the lower base is square with trimmed angles; the upper surface of the lower base has been carved to accept colonnettes at the angles, but the shape of the basin does no seem to make this possible; the lower base clearly belongs to an earlier font, perhaps of the 13th century. The font is a composite object created with the lower base of the former medieval font [the rest now lost?], to which was added a new basin and stem in the 16th century. Simple flat font cover; there is also an additional cover in the shape of an octagonal(?) dome bearing an inscription; this one is attached to a pulley contraption to raise it and lower it; it appears to be made of metal and stone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.85861, 5.38975

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 31″ N, 5° 23′ 23.1″ E

UTM: 31U 668187 5636823

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: yes

Notes: odd-looking piece, metal (and stone?) - there is an inscription on the upper dome of the font cover: "BAPTIZ[...]"