Dourbes No. 1 / Doûpe
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19765DOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Servais
Church Patron Saints: St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]
Church Location: Rue de Fagnolles, 5670 Dourbes, Belgium -- Tél.: +32(0)31.16.35
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Couvin, SSW of Namur
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.088889,
4.593056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 5′ 20″ N,
4° 35′ 35″ E
UTM: 31U 613956 5549729
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
Mertens, Jozef, L'église Saint-Servais à Dourbes: Namur, Bruxelles: Service national des Fouilles, 1952