Gosselies, in Charleroi No. 3 / Gochi

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Results: 3 records

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90911] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90911_std.jpg&objnr=10035184] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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symbol - shield - emblem - unidentified

Scene Description: a shield with a Greek cross traversed diagonally upwards from right to left (the pointed side of the rod (?) is in the upper left quarter of the cross)

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph [cliché A90911] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90911_std.jpg&objnr=10035184] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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view of stoup

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Image Source: B&W photograph [cliché A90911] 1945 by C.G.P.A.P. in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=http://www.kikirpa.be/image/A/9/0/a90911_std.jpg&objnr=10035184] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18995GOS
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: Wall-mounted inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font?
Polygonal holy-water stoup wall-mounted in this church; the upper basin side has a pronounced parallel moulding, and there is one interesting symbol on the right side of the underbowl: a Greek cross with a thin rod (?) crossing it diagonally upwards from right to left; the symbol is raised on a shield-like backgound. Noted and illustrated in KIK-IRPA Brussels [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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: polygonal (wall-mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal