Celles-les-Dinant No. 2 / Cele-dilé-Dinant / Celles-lès-Dinant / Celles-lez-Dinant

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design element - motifs - moulding
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18506CEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ancienne collégiale Saint-Hadelin
Church Patron Saints: St. Hadelin [aka Adelin, Hadelinus]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Dinant
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W tower, rez-de-chaussée level
Century and Period: 16th century(late?)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in De Bruyn (1869-1870). Illustrated in Barral i Altet (1989). Baptismal font probably from the date of the reconstruction of the western tower in this collegiate church, in the late 16th century; it consists of an octagonal basin decorated with mouldings and covered with a round metal [copper?] hemispherical dome lid; it is raised on an octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal-to-square lower base. [cf. Index entry for Celles-les-Dinant for a second font (?) listed in this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.22893, 5.008208
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 13′ 44.15″ N, 5° 0′ 29.55″ E
UTM: 31U 643233 5566014
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped
REFERENCES
Barral i Altet, Xavier, Belgique romane, et Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1989
De Bruyn, Hyacinthe, abbé, Archéologie religieuse appliquée à nos monuments nationaux, Bruxelles: Victor Devaux et Cie., 1869-1870