Jeuk / Goyer / in Gingelom

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BH01: Apostle or saint - St. George

Scene Description: with an identifying inscription on his crown

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009: 82)

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BH02: human figure - female - head - wearing crown - with cross and beads

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009: 82)

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BH03: human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing crown - with cross and beads

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009: 82)

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BH04: human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing headdress

Scene Description: is it a band?

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009: 82)

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009: 81)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009: 81)

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the modern church here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2007 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeuk_-_Sint-Joriskerk.jpg] [accessed 17 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11608JEU

Church/Chapel: Sint-Joriskerk / Eglise Saint-Joris / Eglise Saint-Georges

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Church Location: 3890 Jeuk, Gingelom, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Gingelom

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1155-1160?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]

Church Notes: present church is Neo-Classical, with a neo-Baroque interior

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Ghislain (1986) [after Zimmermann (1954?)]. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160; the basin is round and plain except for four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles; the heads are: 1)head in 'camail' (a hood of armour), wearing a flat round crown with an inscription identifying the person as St. George; only the eyes and now are visible outside the camail; 2)female wearing crown with cross and beads on it; 3)male, bearded, moustache pointing upwards, wearing crown with cross and beads; 4)male head with thick moustache and a beard that wraps down the underbowl into teo separate curls; wearing a head-band; the round stem is a modern replacement in poured concrete; the lower base has the usual moulding all around and complex leaf motifs at the corners. Ghislain (ibid.) remarks on detail similarities with the fonts at Soulme, Daussois, Heel, Chéreng and Oplinter, and further notes that the font must have been an indivualised order for this church, the patron of which is Sint Joris, Saint George.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.734164, 5.209219

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 2.99″ N, 5° 12′ 33.19″ E

UTM: 31U 655897 5622591

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*

Basin Depth: 28.5 cm*

Basin Total Height: 38 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the flat crown of one of the protruding heads

Inscription Text: "+ʘS[an]C[tu]S.GEORGI[us]+ʘ"

Inscription Source: Ghislain (2009)

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

Zimmermann, Walther, "Romanische Taufsteine am Niederrhein", Heft 155-156, Annalen des historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein, 1954, pp. 481; r["References"]