Bousignies-sur-Roc
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: are the holes in basin and lower base part of the dranage?
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Image Source: digital photograph in L'Avesnois [https://villesetvillagesdelavesnois.org/bousignies/bousignies_sur_roc.html] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bousignies-sur-Roc (Nord, Fr) église, extérieur"
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Image Source: digital photograph 11 July 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bousignies-sur-Roc_(Nord,_Fr)_église,_extérieur.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bousignies-sur-Roc (Nord, Fr) église, intérieur"
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Image Source: digital photograph 11 July 2011 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bousignies-sur-Roc_(Nord,_Fr)_église,_intérieur.jpg] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L'Avesnois, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in L'Avesnois [https://villesetvillagesdelavesnois.org/bousignies/bousignies_sur_roc.html] [accessed 9 January 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23661BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hainaut type font
Church / Chapel Name: Église sainte Aldegonde de Bousignies sur Roc
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Aldegund [aka Aldegonde, Adelgunde. Adelgundis, Aldegonde, Aldegundis]
Church Notes: original church ca. 1554; present church 1845
Church Address: 115 Grand place, 59149 Bousignies-sur-Roc, France
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D80 [aka rue de Landignies], 4 km NE of Cousolre, about 15 km E of Maubeuge, near the border with Belgium
Historical Region: Avesnois / le Hainaut français
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of limestone in the 15th-16th century; it consists of a hexagonal basin with a torus-scotia-tourus moulding at the upper rim, on an octagonal(?) pedestal with moulded lower base mouldings. The flat cover appears metallic, hinged towards the back.
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 584232 5568585
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.263397, 4.18181
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 15′ 48.23″ N, 4° 10′ 54.52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Drainage Notes: appears to have a side drainage
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]