Gosselies, in Charleroi No. 1 / Gochi

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inscription

Scene Description: partial view of the inscription and the delicate decoration of the upper surface of the cover and its finial

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90914] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90914_std.jpg&objnr=10035185] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Photo caption: "the St. John the Baptist Church and the medieval tower"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 30 October 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gosselies_JPG07.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90912] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90912_std.jpg&objnr=10035185] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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view of font cover

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90913] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90913_std.jpg&objnr=10035185] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18993GOS
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Gosselies is now part of Charleroi
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournai [formerly in the dioceses of Liège and Namur]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic
Stone baptismal font consisting of a hexagonal basin with graded sides, raised on a hexagonal graded base and lower base. Metal cover [brass?] of cylindrical dome shape with a cross finial with knobbed ends; much of the upper surface of the cover is delicately carved and bears an inscription: ": : Sante Joannes Baptista 1603". Listed and illustrated in KIK-IRPA Brussels [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 11 January 2014]. [cf. Index entry for Jumet No. 2 for a former bracket from this church re-cycled as a holy-water stoup in Jumet]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.465331, 4.429392
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 27′ 55.19″ N, 4° 25′ 45.81″ E
UTM: 31U 601446 5591346

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 109 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA Brussels [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 11 January 2014]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the font cover, around the base of the finial cross
Inscription Text: "*Sante Joannes Baptista - 1603 *"
Inscription Source: [cf. FonNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1603
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]