Bomal / Bomella / Boumål / Boumale / Boumalle / Boumela / Bumalia

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette

Scene Description: one of four? [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: only a fanned end remains; it may have been a vibe issuing from a lion's mouth, as with fonts of this 'filiation'

view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise classique, à trois nefs séparées par des colonnes de pierre, construite en 1768-1769. Elle est précédée d'une tour occidentale dont la base remonte au XIème ou au XIIème siècle."

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2011

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 May 2011 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bomal_-_Eglise_Saint-Rosaire.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Maurice Broeckaert, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M84803]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the stone holy-water stoup is visible at the far [west] end of the nave, beneath the gallery, on the right [north] side of the tower arch; the font itself is barely discernible here, inside the space of the tower

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Maurice Broeckaert, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M84804]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: unfortunatelly the photographer missed most of the base, the most interesting and valuable part of this composite font

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view of stoup

Scene Description: dated in the source: 1641-1660

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11594BOM
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame du Rosaire / Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Rozenkranskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the old village of Gérompont, in the present Ramillies, S of Liège
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: Brabant
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Date: ca. 1155-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [lower base and fragments only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Noted in Ghislain (1986) as one of a group of Mosan baptismal fonts (Sclayn, Bomal, Marcinelle and Gerpinnes] decorated with tendrils among other ornamentation. [NB: only a fragment of the font has survived]. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the fragments of a basin and lower base of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160, and remarks on the detail similarities with the fonts at Achêne, Zonhoven, Hour, Asselt, Résimont, Bléhen and the Merksem font at the M.R.A.H. Two fragments of the basin are now built into the walls of the bell tower; one is the spandrel of the upper surface of the basin, and has a characteristic double palmette of triangular shape; the other has the fanned palmette end of an acanthus vine. The font itself is now a composite object made up of a later [17th-century?] octagonal basin with plain curved tapering sides, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; not clear whether this part is the original central shaft of the five-support base, or a later replacement; the lower base is the original one of the early font; it has a moulding around the base of the central shaft, and has the four bases of the four corner colonnettes that are now missing; the angles of this lower base are decorated with long and broad curving leaves. The details of the lower base are very difficult to see now, with the font encased in a tight space and most of the lower base below the presen flooring. There is a metal dome cover with a cross finial, of the 17th-century design typical of the fonts of the area. A mid-17th century holy-water stoup consisting of a quatrefoiled basin raised on a baluster-shaped pedestal base is recorded in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium); it is located at the west end of the nave, by the north side of the tower arch.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.668096, 4.87355
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 5.15″ N, 4° 52′ 24.78″ E
UTM: 31U 632397 5614592

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: square (mounted) [the original basin]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square [the original basin]
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [NB: this measurement corresponds to the present composite font, not the original one]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?
Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: metal dome with cross finial

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"]
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009