Theux No. 1
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Results: 16 records
B01: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: passant to the right -- probably not the most accurate representation of a lion...
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]
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B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left -- a rather fishy look on it...
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]
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BH01: human figure - head - wearing headdress
Scene Description: one of four; this one clean-shaved or female
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Theux_08.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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BH02: human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing headdress
Scene Description: or helmet? one of four
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Theux_10.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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BH03: human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing headdress
Scene Description: or helmet? one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Theux_12.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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BH04: human figure - head - wearing headdress
Scene Description: one of four; this one slean shaved or female
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Theux_15.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled
Scene Description: the two parts of the base: the upper may be a re-cycled Roman piece
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]
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view of church exterior - north portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saints-Hermès-et-Alexandre_de_Theux_22.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail
Scene Description: the tower, built against the north wall, and the north porcch
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saints-Hermès-et-Alexandre_de_Theux_15.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: only the tip of the tower is discernible atop behind the roof
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saints-Hermès-et-Alexandre_de_Theux_03.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saints-Hermès-et-Alexandre_de_Theux_31.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saints-Hermès-et-Alexandre_de_Theux_33.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Theux_04.JPG] [accessed 2 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16492THE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saintes-Hermès-et-Alexandre
Church Location: Rue de la Chaussée, 4910 Theux, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the N62, SW of Verviers, NNW of Spa, 27 km SE of Liège capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, of www.infomolina.com, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a round tapering basin with protruding heads at 90-degree angles of the flat moulding at the upper rim; the heads could be mixed, male and female, and the all have headware; on the sides, four (?) animals, one of whcih a lion passant facing right, another a dragon passant facing left; the short stem appears to be square with four clustered round columns at the angles, and there is a possibility that it is the remains of a Roman colum re-cut and re-used under the basin; the lower base is not original either, unless it has beem re-carved, since the motifs on the sides are Gothic trefoils. The metal cover is a brass dome of late date.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.534575, 5.811059
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 4.47″ N, 5° 48′ 39.81″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]