Marcinelle, in Charleroi No. 1 / Mårcinele

Noted in Ghislain (1986) as a limestone baptismal font of the Mosan-namurois group decorated with four protruding heads at 90-degree angles of the basin, and with tendrils. The fragment is noted and illustrated, with date between 1191 and 1210, in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA Brussels. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a fragment of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160; discovered in 1931 it was subsequently buil into a south wall of the church. It is said to have belonged to the original font here; the fragment includes a human head and a tendril of what appears to be a well-executed acanthus vine, which Ghislain (ibid.) remarks as being similar to those at Gerpinnes. [cf. Index entry for Marcinelle No. 2 for the later font in this church].