Gosselies, in Charleroi No. 2 / Gochi

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design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA Brussels, 2014

Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90910] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90910_std.jpg&objnr=10035182] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90910] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90910_std.jpg&objnr=10035182] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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Scene Description: now used as a stoup [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90910] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90910_std.jpg&objnr=10035182] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18994GOS
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]
Century and Period: 17th century,
Stone holy-water stoup consisting of an octagonal basin with moulded sides, raised on a slender octagonal pedestal base and a splaying lower base of the same shape. Listed and illustrated in KIK-IRPA Brussels [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 11 January 2014] as a former baptismal font re-cycled now as holy-water stoup. [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, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 114 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA Brussels [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 11 January 2014]