Hollogne-sur-Geer
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Results: 10 records
B01: human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin top side; seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B082340]
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BH02: animal - mammal - feline - head
Scene Description: one of four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin top side; seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B082340]
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BH03: head
![one of four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin top side [no details available]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: one of four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin top side [no details available]
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BH04: head
Scene Description: one of four heads at 90-degree angles on the basin top side [no details available]
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2008 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollogne-sur-Geer_-_Eglise_Saint-Brice.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2015]
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view of church interior - crucifix - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Christ du 12e siècle restauré, église >St-Brice, Hollogne-sur-Geer (Hesbaye liégeoise)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Freddy de Hosdent, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Freddy de Hosdent [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_roman.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2015]
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view of church interior - crucifix - detail
Scene Description: perhaps from the same period as the base of the old font here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: photograph taken in 1993 by Jacques Declercq, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché G004306]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the Romanesque rood at the chancel arch, above
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Portail Wallonie/DGO4, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph in Portail Wallonie/DGO4 [http://spw.wallonie.be/dgo4/site_photos/index.php/BC_PAT/Liege/64029/64029-CLT-0006-01] [accessed 16 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: photograph taken in 1970 by Serge Pluymers [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché G004306]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 byCommissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B082340]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19769GEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Brice / Sint-Brixiuskerk
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Geer, near Waremme
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: Hesbaye liégeoise
Date: ca. 1150-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [lower base only] / 16th century[basin and stem] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Font Notes:
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Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the surviving lower base of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1160, a date that can be ascertained in relation to a fire that destroyed the church in 1150; the font, of which only the base has survived, was introduced soon after the fire. This lower base now supports a much later font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with four protruding heads (human and animal) at 90-degree angles, and a flat rim moulding, the sides rounding down around the underbowl; on an octagonal-to-square stem; the upper surface of the lower base has been damaged, perhaps cut to accommodate a different supporting solution in an intermediary life between the original design and the present. A round wooden cover is in place; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.673714, 5.213929
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 25.37″ N, 5° 12′ 50.14″ E
UTM: 31U 656430 5615880
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse) [lower base only]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Square Base Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]