Resimont nr. Evelette / Résimont

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 19816RES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from the disappeared Church of Saint-Martin de Résimont?]
Font Location in Church: [location unknown]
Other Dedications: St. Martin
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].
Church Address: rue de Résimont, 5359 Evelette, Namur, Belgium
Site Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 983, about 2 km from Flostoy and Evelette
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Historical Region: Le Condroz [Le Condroz profond]
Additional Comments: disused font / fragment of a font
Font Notes:
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, catalogue entry no. 59, p. 182-183