Resimont nr. Evelette / Résimont

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animal - mammal - lion - head - vine stemming from its mouth - acanthus?

INFORMATION

FontID: 19816RES
Church/Chapel: [originally from the disappeared Church of Saint-Martin de Résimont?]
Church Location: rue de Résimont, 5359 Evelette, Namur, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the 983, about 2 km from Flostoy and Evelette
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Historical Region: Le Condroz [Le Condroz profond]
Font Location in Church: [location unknown]
Date: ca. 1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: A church at Résimont is documented in mid-14thC in reference to a "Collocation du bénéfice de l'église de Résimont, 1348" [source: S. Bormans' Tables des manuscripts généalogiques de Le Fort, 3e partie, in the Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 1863, vol. 6: 233].
Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as two fragments of the basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160, their present location unknown; the two fragments show the type of vegetal decoration found on the basins at Asselt and Zonhoven, also with the characteristic feline head issuing the [acanthus?] vine from its mouth. Ghislain (ibid.) reports the fragments found in a park in Evelette, near where the now disappeared church of Saint-Martin de Résimont had been located, but the author does not totally exclude that it might be from Evelette Saint-Germain.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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