Aldeneik / Eike

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view of base

Scene Description: a modern base in the traditional style of the Mosan font bases

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2013 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldeneik,_StAnnakerk13.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2015]

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view of basin

Scene Description: a modern basin after the odl Mosan traditional model

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2013 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldeneik,_StAnnakerk13.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Paul Hermans [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_aldeneik.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2013 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldeneik,_StAnnakerk09.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "View of Romanesque font in the interior of Sint-Annakerk (Saint Ann's Church), the former abbey church of Aldeneik Monastery, now a parish church in Aldeneik, near Maaseik, Belgium." [NB: this is not a Romanesque font, although generally in the style of the old Mosan fonts of that period]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2013 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldeneik,_StAnnakerk13.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the stem and lower base are medieval [cf. FontNotes] but the basin and cover are a 19th-century replacement

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Foto Skopeo [Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique]; KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M49931]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: this is the font with the medieval base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2013 by Kleon3 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldeneik,_StAnnakerk11.jpg] [accessed 2 May 2015]

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view of font base

Scene Description: the central shaft has survived, re-shaped towards the top; the lower base shows clearly the stumps of the four angle colonnettes; the round moulding can still be seen on the sides but the detail of the likely leaf motifs at the angles characteristic of this type of font design is no loger there

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Foto Skopeo [Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique]; KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M49931]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19856ALD

Church/Chapel: Sint-Annakerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne [originally dedicated to St. Mary; later St. Mary and St. Peter]

Church Location: Hamontweg 112, Maaseik, Limburg, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located near, and now a suburb of, Maaseik, on the banks of the Meuse, near the border with Holland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [base only], Medieval / composite

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / Mosan type? [base only]

Church Notes: originally abbey church of 8thC Aldeneik Abbey [Klooster van Aldeneik], a Benedictine nunnery, founded by the sisters Harlindis and Relindis; collegiate church of the 12thC; now a parish church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two baptismal fonts in this church. One of the fonts is described and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) as a composite object that consists of a medieval 13th-century stem and lower base, and a basin and font cover of the 18th century; the lower base is of the type to accommodate five supports, a broad central shaft that has survived, and four angle colonnettes that have not, but the stumps are clearly carved onto the lower base; it is moulded, and may have had leaf motifs at the angles, though the stone is much too worn now ofr this sort of detail. The base of this font is described in De Inventaris van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed, Parochiekerk Sint-Anna (ID: 86171) [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/dibe/relict/86171] [accessed 2 May 2015] as: "Doopvont op Romaans voetstuk (XII), hardsteen met deksel van messing (XVIII)." The second font is in the general style of the old Mosan font design, a basin that is round with four human heads at 90-degree angles, the sides between carved with vegetal motifs; it is a modern basin; it stands on a base consisting of a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes, with a moulded lower base with lanceolated leaves at the corners, also modern; this base is a modern version of the surviving medieval one noted above.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.102028, 5.805556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 6′ 7.3″ N, 5° 48′ 20″ E

UTM: 31U 696416 5664915

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [base only]

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round [modern]

Basin Exterior Shape: round [modern]

Notes on Measurements: [NB: the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) gives 'total height' of 136 cms., but that includes the font cover]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century?

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: dome with orb-and-cross finial