Dorne nr Opoeteren

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: very deeply carved

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Foto Skopeo, KIK, KIK-IRPA cliché M090102 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090102&objnr=76608&nr=35] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a band of half leaves with turned tips, all around the stem, below the wavy line

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Foto Skopeo, KIK, KIK-IRPA cliché M090102 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090102&objnr=76608&nr=35] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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design element - motifs - wave

Scene Description: all around the stem

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Image Source: edited detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Foto Skopeo, KIK, KIK-IRPA cliché M090102 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090102&objnr=76608&nr=35] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the modern Sint-Donatuskerk in Opoeteren (Dorne)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2007 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opoeteren_-_Sint-Donatuskerk.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: exterior view of the 1923 Parochiekerk Sint-Donatus

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Foto Skopeo, KIK, KIK-IRPA cliché M090098 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090098&objnr=76602&nr=31] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: interior view of the 1923 Parochiekerk Sint-Donatus

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Foto Skopeo, KIK, KIK-IRPA cliché M090099 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090099&objnr=76602&nr=31] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the plaque on the wall, dedicated to Denis Oeteren and dated 1623, appears to have no relation to the font itself

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Foto Skopeo, KIK, KIK-IRPA cliché M090102 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090102&objnr=76608&nr=35] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20077DOR
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Donatus
Church Patron Saints: St. Donatus [aka Donatus of Arezzo]
Church Location: Sint-Donatusplein 1 B-3680 Dorne, Opoeteren (Maaseik), Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located near [in?] Opoeteren, off the N771, in Maaseik
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Hasselt
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Date: ca. 1241-1260?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Gothic
Church Notes: Opoeteren and Dorne appear now to be a single parish; the church at Dorne is completely modern now, but the KIK-IRPA database has a photograph of a 1923 Sint-Donatuskerk in Dorne [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090098&objnr=76602&nr=31] [accessed 22 October 2015]
Noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090102&objnr=76608&nr=35] [accessed 22 October 2015] as a stone baptismal font dated 1241-1260, in the Sint-Donatuskerk, Dorne; the font consists of a square basin with a deeply-carved pattern of foliage on all sides; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base adorned with a wavy line pattern towards the top, and a row of half-leaf pattern, the leaves with turned-up tips; the round inner basin is very small for the size of the overall square bowl. Low dome metal cover with cross finial; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2' 36.91" N, 5° 37' 30.13" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Height of Basin Side: 20 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 51 x 51 cm*
Notes on Measurements: BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M090102&objnr=76608&nr=35] [accessed 22 October 2015]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]