Gorsem
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché M089562] of a 1972 B&W photograph by Foto Skopeo,KIK [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing the newer font cover with metal ornaments and ring handle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché M089561] of a 1972 B&W photograph by Foto Skopeo,KIK [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: this font cover later replaced by a newer one with metal ornaments and ring handle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché B078015] of a 1944 B&W photograph in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: showing three of them in this image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [cliché M089562] of a 1972 B&W photograph by Foto Skopeo,KIK [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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design element - architectural - capital - leaf - 4
Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [cliché M089562] of a 1972 B&W photograph by Foto Skopeo,KIK [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché B078018] of a 1944 B&W photograph in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché B078017] of a 1944 B&W photograph in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joeri Mertens, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 26 June 2014 by Joeri Mertens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Truiden_Gorsem_KH_(2)_-_312110_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - architectural - column - 5
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché B078016] of a 1944 B&W photograph in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the mouldings on the lower base have been almost totally eroded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image [cliché B078016] of a 1944 B&W photograph in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23441GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Ten Hemelopnemingskerk / Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: present church is late-18thC
Church Address: Gorsem-Dorp, 3803 Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Site Location: Limburg, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) Gorsem Dorp, in the municipality and 2-3 km NW of Sint-Truiden, about 20 km SW of Hasselt
Font Notes:
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Inventoried and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76117] [accessed 15 September 2021] as a baptismal font made of stone between 1201 and 1300. The font consists of a round almost cylindrical basin with four protruding heads set at 90-degree angles; below the heads are the leaf capitals that top the four outer colonnettes of the base; also part of the base is a broad central shaft; the lower base is square and the mouldings that formed the bases for the columns of the upper base are now eroded away and hardly visible. Photographs in the BALaT KIK-IRPA inventory [cf. supra] show two wooden font covers on the font; the older one appears round, flat and plain; the newer one is similar, round and flat, but has metal decoration and a ring handle on it.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 652423 5633477
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.832911, 5.164547
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 58.48″ N, 5° 9′ 52.37″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.