Theux No. 2

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Results: 2 records

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UBF01: Apostle or saint?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16493THE

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Baroque / Reformation [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic stoup?

Cognate Fonts: another such on the other side of the entranceway

Church / Chapel Name: Église Saintes-Hermès-et-Alexandre de Theux

Font Location in Church: By the entrance, right side

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hermes [feast day 28 August] & St. Alexander of Jerusalem [feast day 18 March]

Church Address: Rue de la Chaussée, 4910 Theux, Belgium

Site Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the N62, SW of Verviers, NNW of Spa, 27 km SE of Liège capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Additional Comments: composite stoup

Font Notes: Click to view

One of two holy-water stoups located at the entrance of the church; they appear to be composite objects consisting of a polygonal basin, perhaps a former capital, on a slender stem with a hieratic carved figure on the front, and a polygonal lower base. The basin sides on this one appear to be decorated with an arcade of pointed arches and shields. Is the figure meant to be one of the two patron saints of the church?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, of www.infomolina.com, for his photographs of this stoup

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 529738 4622462

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.534575, 5.811059

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 32′ 4.47″ N, 5° 48′ 39.81″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: polygonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal