Goe / Goé / Goyé / Gulke

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view of font

Scene Description: the later, 18thC font
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Charles Mahaux, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [cliché M009758] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002167] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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view of basin

Scene Description: the old font; the original base has been lost
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Charles Mahaux, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [cliché M009759] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002162] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: individualised; the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Charles Mahaux, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [cliché M009759] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002162] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - horseshoe

Scene Description: the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Charles Mahaux, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [cliché M009759] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002162] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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design element - motifs - scotia

Scene Description: the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Charles Mahaux, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [cliché M009759] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002162] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2010 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goé_-_Eglise_Saint-Lambert.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Romaine, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2016 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goé-Église_Saint-Lambert.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2017]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 21496GOE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Lambert / Sint-Lambertuskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Address: rue de l'Eglise, Goé, 4834 Limbourg, Belgium
Site Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N620, 3 km SE of the centre of Limbourg [NB: Goé was formerly an autonomous village, but is now part of the municipality of Limbourg]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Additional Comments: re-cycled font (used for many years as water-trough in a nearby farm /f ield)
Font Notes:
The basin of the old baptismal font of this church is noted and illustrated in KIK-IRPA [ref.: 10002162] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002162] [accessed 10 September 2017], with date in the last quarter of the 12th century. A later replacement font of the 18th century is also noted and illustrated in KIK-IRPA [ref.: 10002167] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002167] [accessed 10 September 2017], consisting of a shallow round basin raised on a round slender pedestal base. In Didier (1965). Salet (1966) notes that the surviving font of the original Romanesque church here had for a long time served as water-trough in a nearby farm until it was returned to the church in 1961; Salet (ibid.) rejects an earlier dating to the 16th century and suggests it be consider part of the Mosan Romanesque production with a date in the late-12th or early-13th century: " De forme circulaire, la cuve, légèrement évasée, est cantonnée de quatre têtes de guerriers saillantes, coiffées de toques plates qui couvrent la nuque en dégageant les oreilles. Les visages, aux yeux globuleux, sont impersonnels, mais traités dans un style énergique et large. Entre elles se développe une frise d'arceaux outrepassés, taillés en biseau et peu profondes. Le matériau est un calcaire dur local, utilisé pour d'autres fonts baptismaux de la région, ceux de Bullange, de But-genbach, de Neundorf, de Sart-lez-Spa, de Walhorn. Il faut donc rattacher les fonts de Goé à l'école de sculpture mo- sane. Les têtes de guerriers sont d'ailleurs d'un type qui se rencontre ailleurs en pays mosan. On peut même admettre qu'il s'agit d'une production de l'atelier que Mlle Tollenaere situe aux environs de Saint- Vith, bien que les têtes soient d'un modèle plus savant qu'ailleurs, sans doute parce qu'elles sont plus récentes. Mais il est difficile de proposer une date. La dureté du matériau a probablement figé les traditions décoratives de l'atelier de Saint- Vith qui pratiquera jusqu'au XVIe siècle le parti des têtes saillantes, sur les fonts de Baelen-sur-Vesdre par exemple. Compte tenu de ce qu'il n'existe guère d'éléments de comparaison, sinon des monuments plus anciens et plus frustes, les fonts de Goé, où rien de gothique n'apparaît dans la mouluration, remontent sans doute à la fin du XII ou au début du XIIIe siècle."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 709171 5610266
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.60674, 5.956269
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 36′ 24.26″ N, 5° 57′ 22.57″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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