Boust / Buscht / Bust
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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Noha Sadek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Noha Sadek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI
Copyright Instructions: image and permission received
view of font
Scene Description: notice the two holes in the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Noha Sadek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI
Copyright Instructions: image and permission received
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Noha Sadek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI
Copyright Instructions: image and permission received
view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Ancienne Eglise St-Martin Usseslkirch, now destroyed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: original unknown - posted in Wikipedia by bubudu57 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Boustegliseusselskirch.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PD
information
![origin of the font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110808006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: origin of the font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Noha Sadek, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI
Copyright Instructions: image and permission received
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17561BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale St-Martin / Usselskirch / Lutzelenkirche [destroyed] [moved to the cathedral of Metz]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Previous Font Location(s): Boust parish church
Church Notes: the present church of Saint-Maximin was built in 1962 to replace Usselskirch destroyed in the war
Church Address: Usselskirch, 57570 Boust, France
Site Location: Moselle, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D56, 11 km NNE of Thionville, about 30 SE of Luxembourg city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Metz
Historical Region: Lorraine
Additional Comments: disused font? / moved font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a rather shallow circular basin mounted on a broad central shaft and four attached outer colonnettes, decorated with moulded capitals abd bases, at 90-degree angles; on a square lower base; the font appears medieval, but there are two (?) suspicious drain holes on the side of the basin [not able to ascertaing whether a central drain existed in the basin and was blocked; are the side drains a later addition? A notice standing by the font informs that the font and the tower are the only remains of the village, which was destroyed in the war [WWII?] [NB: we have no information on the date when the font was transferred to Metz cathedral]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Noha Sadek for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 297812 5479863
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.43778, 6.211
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 26′ 16.01″ N, 6° 12′ 39.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: yes [cf. FontNotes]