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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cathedral of St. Quentin, Hasselt, Belgium"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 27 February 2010 by Szilas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Quintinuskathedraal_2010-02-27_x.jpg] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chor in der Sint-Quintinus-Kathedrale in Hasselt - Belgien"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited by Rabanus Flavus] 6 September 2006 by Joachim Köhler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hasselt-St-Quintinus-Kathedrale-Innen-Chor-20060906.JPG] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of font - detail

Image Source: digital photograph [https://focusophasseltextraatjes.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/hasselts-doopvont-keert-terug-als-buurt-borrelmannetje-wordt-heraangelegd/] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the metal font that replaced a stone baptismal font ca. 1700

Image Source: digital image of a 1917-1918 B&W photograph by the Kommission für die photographische Inventarisation der belgischen Kunstdenkmäler BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kik kirpa.be/object/76306] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the metal font that replaced a stone baptismal font ca. 1700

Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W photograph by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76306] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the metal font that replaced a stone baptismal font ca. 1700

Image Source: digital photograph by Resmi, in Tripadvisor [https://www.tripadvisor.com.tr/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g188650-d7745841-i337301899-St_Quentin_Cathedral-Hasselt_Limburg_Province.html] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of font cover - crane - detail

Scene Description: detail of the crane and the cover of the metal font that replaced a stone baptismal font ca. 1700

Image Source: digital image of a 1976 B&W photograph in BALaT KIK-IRPA [M256083] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76306] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph [https://focusophasseltextraatjes.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/hasselts-doopvont-keert-terug-als-buurt-borrelmannetje-wordt-heraangelegd/] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Een hoogtewerker reed gisteren de doopvont van zijn sokkel in de Kleine Maastrichterstraat"

Image Source: digital photograph in Mediahuis N.V. [https://www.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20181212_04031909] [accessed 6 December 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23585HAS

Church/Chapel: Sint-Quintinuskathedraal / Cathédrale Saint-Quentin de Hasselt

Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]

Church Location: Vismarkt, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off the N70, in the centre of ring-road N70, about 30 km WNW of Maastricht

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery

Date: ca. 1690?

Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Baroque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: original church 7th-8thC(?); repklaced 11thC; modified 15thC; present tower 1725, restored 19thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The replacement of an older stone font for a later metal one is reported in the BULLETIN des COMMISSIONS ROYALES D'ART ET D'ARCHÉOLOGIE (Bruxeelles), HUITIEME ANNEE, 1869: "Chaque nef latérale fut bâtie contre cinq chapelles. Dans la dernière, du côté sud, furent placés les fonts baptismaux. Elle était ci-devant, comme toutes les autres, clôturée par un columnarium ; elle l'est aujourd'hui par une grille en fer. Les fonts baptismaux actuels n'offrent rien de remarquable. La vasque est en cuivre jaune, d'un diamètre de m 0,80 et d'une hauteur de 1,1 m sans le couvercle. Le couvercle, en cuivre repoussé comme la vasque, a une hauteur de 1,4 m avec l'ornement qui le surmonte. Le levier servant à enlever le couvercle est en fer battu, et quoique le dessin en soit lourdement exécuté, ce travail n'est pas sans quelque mérite. [...] Le 8 juin 1690, l'évêque Jean-Louis d'Elderen autorisa le remplacement des anciens fonts baptismaux en pierre tendre par de nouveaux fonts en métal. La ville, appauvrie par la guerre, ne donna, à titre de subside, qu'un vieux petit canon brisé, orné de l'écusson municipal, et relégué, depuis longtemps, parmi les objets inutiles." A baptismal font here of metal made in 1700 is noted in Erenderfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/22097] [accessed 6 December 2021]. A baptismal font here made of soft stone was located in the south side of the church; a later font made of copper in 1700 is reported inside the baptistery. [NB: we have no information on the discarded stone font other than it being made of "pierre tendre" [cf. supra]]. Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/76306] [accessed 6 December 2021] as a baptismal font made of brass "Date: 1709 (ca) - 1709 (ca.) hoogte: 200 cm". [NB: there is an interesting object in town [cf. ImagesArea], a font-like object consisting of a large roughly hemispherical basin on a base of a number [12?] of bulls, a town sculpture donated by the traders and inhabitants of Maastrichterstraat to celebrate the 750th aniversary of the town, but reminiscent of a well-known font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9297, 5.3386

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 46.92″ N, 5° 20′ 18.96″ E

UTM: 31U 664337 5644612

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, copper

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1700?

Material: metal, copper? / brass?

Apparatus: yes; side crane

Notes: the cover is 140 cm tall -- the side crane is made of cast iron