Rochehaut / Rotchô

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view of basin and cover

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B056466&objnr=10078211&nr=49] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: many of the arches lack capitals, columns and bases now; was that always so?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel wal, 2011
Image Source: edieted detail of a digital photograph taken 3 October 2011 by Michel wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochehaut_église_1102.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel wal, 2011
Image Source: edieted detail of a digital photograph taken 3 October 2011 by Michel wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochehaut_église_1102.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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human figure - head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel wal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2011 by Michel wal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochehaut_église_1104.jpg] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B056460&objnr=10078146&lang=en-GB&nr=20] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GDion, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2011 by GDion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_paroissiale_Saint-Firmin_de_Rochehaut._Vue_éloignée._2011.JPG] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2011 by GDion [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_paroissiale_Saint-Firmin_de_Rochehaut._Vue_du_Sud-Est._2011.JPG] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M028439&objnr=10078146&lang=en-GB&nr=20] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B056462&objnr=10078146&lang=en-GB&nr=20] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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view of stoup

Scene Description: a concave-ribbed stoup sticks out of the wood panelling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=M028445&objnr=10078186&nr=43] [accessed 25 October 2015]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 20084ROC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Date: 1139?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Firmin de Rochehaut
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a narrow alcove
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Firminus of Amiens [aka Fermin, Firmin]
Church Notes: original church here ca. 1139; present building is early-17thC -- Listed church ref.: 84010/84010-CLT-0021-01
Church Address: Rue des Moissons, 6830 Bouillon, Belgium
Site Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N819, in the municipality and 12 km SE of Bouillon, about 30 km W of Neufchâteau
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10078211] [accessed 25 October 2015], a limestone basin dated 1101-1200; on it is a 17th-century cover made of hammered brass. The location of this font, inside a narrow alcove in the wall, permits to see only the basin and its cover atop a wooden closet; what is not clear is whether there is a stone base now covered by the wooden closet, or not at all. The basin appears to be one of the classic Romanesque types of the area, round and not very deep [source gives 29 cm as the height of the basin]; the stone appears to be the bluish limestone characteristic of the Namur and Tournai areas.

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.840253, 5.005694
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 50′ 24.91″ N, 5° 0′ 20.5″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Height of Basin Side: 29 cm*

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shape with Latin cross finial

REFERENCES

  • KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.