Dourbes No. 1 / Doûpe
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19765DOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation Beauchevain [Ghislain]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Servais
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]
Church Address: Rue de Fagnolles, 5670 Dourbes, Viroinval, Belgium -- Tél.: +32(0)31.16.35
Site Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located S of the N939, in the municipality and 3 km N of Viroinval, 8-9 km ENE of Couvin, 45-50 km SSW of Namur
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (even the fragments have disappeared)
Font Notes:
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Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as fragment(s) of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1160; the fragments(s) were re-used in the 17th century on the wall of the chancel. Ghislain (ibid.) reders to the 1951 excavation by Mertens (1952), which discovered the existence of an ancient chapel replaced by a Romanesque church here. The fragment is described in Ghislain (ibid.) as a head rather typical of Beauvechain type, elongated face with moustache and beard, the hair long and parted in the middle and led to behind the ear.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 613956 5549729
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.088889, 4.593056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 5′ 20″ N, 4° 35′ 35″ E
REFERENCES
- Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009, catalogue entry 11, p.69
- Mertens, Jozef, L'église Saint-Servais à Dourbes: Namur, Bruxelles: Service national des Fouilles, 1952, p. 138, pl. V, fig. 3-5