Zonhoven No. 2 / Zonôf

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: view of the basin showing two of the four heads and part of the inscription

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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned

Scene Description: the motifs at the angles

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

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

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inscription

Scene Description: second part

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inscription

Scene Description: first part

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19825ZON
Church/Chapel: Kerk Sint-Kwinten / Sint-Quintinuskerk / Eglise paroissiale Saint-Quentin
Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]
Church Location: 3520 Zonhoven, Limbourg, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Limburg, Brabant
Directions to Site: Located near Hasselt
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: La Campine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1526
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic
Noted and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [no. 77794], as a holy-water stoup of limestone dated by en inscription to 1526; the stoup consists of an octagonal moulded basin with four heads at 90-degree angles; the human heads appear to be female and wearing headgear with a wimple; there is marked centre-ring moulding with floral (?) decoration at the eight angles; the lower base is octagonal-to-square, with spurs (?) at the angles. The inscription runs on two sides of the upper basin side.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.99151, 5.36798
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 29.44″ N, 5° 22′ 4.73″ E
UTM: 31U 666181 5651550

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [no. 77794]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on two sides of the upper basin side
Inscription Text: "ZONHOVEN [...] / ANNO 1526"
Inscription Source: BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [no. 77794]