Florennes / Florene / Florène
Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
Results: 7 records
human figure - head - male - bearded - long hair
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: like an irregular interlace in the speces between the heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
human figure - head - male - bearded - wearing hat
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
![Source caption: "Florennes (Belgique) - Saint-Gengulphe (ou Gangulphe) [l’église-collégiale] - chevet." -- was this the church whence the museum font originated?](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220311005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Florennes (Belgique) - Saint-Gengulphe (ou Gangulphe) [l’église-collégiale] - chevet." -- was this the church whence the museum font originated?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jmh2o, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2016 by Jmh2o [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florennes_-_Saint-Gengulphe_-_chevet_-_01.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
information
Scene Description: museum label
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 July 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2022)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23811FLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic
Museum: Musée des arts anciens du Namurois, Namur
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the town centre] 5620 Florennes, Belgium
Site Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Florennes is located off the N98 and N975 crossroads, about 10 km SSE of Gerpinnes, about 20 km SE of Charleroi
Additional Comments: altered font / disused font (only the basin remain; in a museum)
Font Notes:
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A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 6 March 2022) notes and illustrates the basin of a font made of limestone in the 16th century, orignally from Florennes (church unknown), today in the Musée des arts anciens du Namurois at Namur. The basin is round, decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles, with reticular pattern between them; base missing. No cover present.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention, for his help in documenting it and for his photographs
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 615257 5567678
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round