Villers-sur-Lesse / Vileir / Villari / Villari sour Leche / Villers sur Lech / Villers sur Lesse / Viyé-so-Lesse
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M213603]
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view of basin and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cuve correspondant probablement au socle des fonts de Jamblinne."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M213603]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: the late-19thC church re-built after the 1961 fire -- Source caption: "Edifice construit en 1886, incendié en 1961 et reconstruit en 1962-1965 par Roger Bastin, de Namur. La tour; le portail et une partie des murs ont été conservés dans la nouvelle construction."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M213590]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: painted wood maquette of the late-19thC church here, showing the building destroyed in the 1961 fire
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1973 by Jean Pierre Renson, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M213622]
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view of font base
![the lower base, badly damaged and semi buried in the flooring of the Jamblinne church, is said to belong with the basin at Villers-sur-Lesse [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150416015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the lower base, badly damaged and semi buried in the flooring of the Jamblinne church, is said to belong with the basin at Villers-sur-Lesse [cf. FontNotes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 19823VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Lambert [modern church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: 5580 Villers-sur-Lesse, Rochefort, Namur, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Rochefort, near Dinant
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church at Villers-sur Lesse
Date: ca. 1160-1165?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Church Notes: the original church here, documented by 1139, was probably repalced on a different site in the 14thC; that church was demolished and replaced by a neo-Gothic building in 1886; the 19thC church destroyed by a fire in 1961, and replaced by a new one in 1964
Font Notes:
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The entry for this font in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [ref.: 10079368 / cliché M213603] notes that the basin here and the pedestal base at Jamblinne [a hamlet of Villers-sur-Lesse] belong together. The basin at the church of Saint-Lambert in Villers-sur-Lesse, is catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a being part of baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160-1165, and it now stands on a makeshift pedestal base; the plain sides of the square basin contrast with the ornamentation on the underbowl, specially the leaves that make up the capitals of the outer colonnettes [now missing]. Ghislain (ibid.) appears to support the hypothesis of the two parts at Villers and Jamblinne being of one font originally, put forward by G. Amand de Mendieta in 1977, and remarks on detail similarities with the fonts at Finnevaux, Bastogne, Ciergnon, Jeneffe, Libois, Ossogne and Pry, [cf. Index entry for Jamblinne for the lower base said to belong to this font].