Verviers No. 2 / Vervî

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1941 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B026650]

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human figure - female - head - wearing headdress and wimple - 4?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1941 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B026650]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the 1913 church -- Source caption: "Les Carmes s'étaient installés à Verviers en 1683 et leir église conventuelle définitive avait été édifiée à l'emplacement de la première et achevée en 1722. Désaffectée lors de la Révolution française, elle servit depuis 1803 de chapelle auxilliaire à Saint-Remacle puis fut érigée en paroissiale en 1842. Elle disparut lorsque après maints refus, on accorda en 1905 l'autorisation de construire un nouveau sanctuaire. D'après les plans de l'architecte Burguet, on éleva de 1913 à 1918 le choeur et le transept, et de 1937 à 1939 la nef de cinq travées avec bas-côtés précédée d'un porche. Ce vaste monument de style néo-gothique consacré le 20 juin 1939 est actuellement fermé au culte et voué à la démolition (1973), elle fut démolie en 1985. Le riche mobilier provenant de l'ancienne église des Carmes court dès lors un grand risque ; plusieurs pièces ont hélas déjà disparu ou sont mutilées."

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M211069] [accessed 16 April 2015]

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view of font

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1941 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B026650]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Provenance: Eglise Saint-Remacle[Verviers]; Verviers [...] Inscription: signature, gravé, sur le couvercle: lettre M avec initiales FT et IL: [...] Couvercle datant du XVIIe siècle d'une hauteur de 65cm."

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1924 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B006792]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: modern marble stoup of 1935, also decorated with four heads -- Source caption: "bénitier [...] marbre [...] inscription, gravé, : inscription de donation au nom de V. Neubaner-Grégoire, 1935: [...] néo-gothique [...] hauteur: 89 cm".

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Mahaux, I.R.P.A.[KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M211084]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19821VER
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Joseph [demolished in 1983] [originally from Saint-Remacle?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Joseph
Church Location: [original location of the demolished church: rue des Carmes, Viviers, Belgium]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located W of Limbourg, between Dison (N) and Theux (S), 30 km from the German border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1451-1500?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Church Notes: church built in 1913 as a chapel subordinate to the parish church of Saint-Remacle; demolished in 1983
Noted and illustrated in the BALaT dabase, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) as a stone Gothic font of between 1451 and 1500, originally from the parish church of Saint-Remacle, in the same town [cf. Index entry for Viviers No. 1 for the fragment of the original font at Satint-Remacle]; the font consists of an octagonal basin with four protruding female heads [all?] wearing head-dress and wimple; torus-scotis-torus all around between the heads; plain rounded underbowl; raised on an octagonal pedestal base, the lower base octagonal-to-square; 17th-century metal font cover of the moulded pudding type, orb-and-Christ-on-the-cross finial; 65 cm tall; engraved: "M FT IL".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 701753 5607370

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]