Kortessem / Kotsoeve
Image copyright © Marc Robben, 2012
Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 January 2012)
Results: 11 records
BBU01: design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
BH01: human figure - male - head?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
BH02: human figure - female? - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
BH03: human figure - male - head?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
BH04: human figure - female? - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Robben, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Marc Robben
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 January 2012)
view of font
Scene Description: notice the marks carved for the angle colonnettes on the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miel Erpelinck, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph taken on August 13, 2005
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of August 14, 2005)
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2007 by Sonuwe [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Kortessem_-_Sint-Pieterskerk.jpg] [accessed 4 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of base - lower base
![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](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120104015_compressed.png)
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Robben, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Marc Robben
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 January 2012)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Robben, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 May 2010 by Marc Robben
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 January 2012)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10918KOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [lower base only] -- 16th century[basin and base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Pieterskerk [aka Kerk Sint-Petrus]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N side of the transept
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Kerkplein 1 B-3720 Kortessem, Belgium
Site Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N20-N76 crossroads, 6 km SSE of Hasselt
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Miel Erpelinck, and to Marc Robben for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 668187 5636823
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.85861, 5.38975
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 31″ N, 5° 23′ 23.1″ E
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[...]"