Aalst / Alost / Oilsjt

Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

Results: 6 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

animal - mammal - unidentified - head

Scene Description: a wolf / hyena?

Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W negative [cliché B097460] in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming, BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

human figure - head

Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W negative [cliché B097459] in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming, BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Martinuskerk (Aalst) - Buitenaanzicht"

Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2010 by IDD5000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Martinuskerk_(Aalst)_-_Buitenaanzicht_02.JPG] [accessed 25 March 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Martinuskerk (Aalst) Interior"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 November 2019 by Qwertzu111111 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Martinuskerk_(Aalst)_05.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W negative [cliché B097457] in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming, BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the wall-mounted crane used to raise and lower the large metal cover

Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W negative [cliché B097458] in the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming, BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

INFORMATION

FontID: 23843AAL

Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholieke Sint-Martinuskerk / Sint-Martenskerk [collegiate church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Priester Daensplein, 9300 Aalst, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 53 71 18 44

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Aalst is located 30 km WNW of Brussels, about the same distance ESE of Ghent. The church is located in the town centre, just S of the railway station

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: medieval church mentioned in 1183; later church started ca. 1480 [W end never completed]; restoration 2003-2027

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The BALaT KIK-IRPA entry for this font [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022] illustrates the limestone font and reports the date on the metal cover as 1698 without any indication as to the date of the font itself [cf. infra]. The BALaT entry gives Robijns, L., "Inventaris van het Kunstpatrimonium van Oost-Vlaanderen: XIV, De Sint-Martinuskerk te Aalst, II. Kunstwerken (Band 1)", in BESTENDIGE DEPUTATIE VAN DE PROVINCIALE RAAD VAN OOST-VLAANDEREN (Gent, 1980), p. 132., which dates the font to the 16th century, as reference. The large tub-shaped basin is decorated with a moulded patterns at the upper rim, and a pair of heads -one animal, one human- that are repeated around the sides; the animal heads protrude from a broad flat ribs on the sides, but the human heads are carved directly on the basin rounded surface; lower down are mouldings and claw-like motifs; the squat base is round-to-square. The large metal [brass?/copper?] cover is a moulded dome with four ball pinnacles at 90-degree angles around an uncommon orb-and-cross finial. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 24 March 2022) informs: "I visited the Sint Martinus church at Aalst, and tried to make pictures of the font. The church is in poor condition and dirty, and is currently being restored. The baptistery was not accessible and is today used for storage of building materials. The baptismal font is clearly no longer used. I took some pictures through the bars of the door. The lid carries the date 1698. I do not know whether the bluestone baptismal font dates from that same year. In the literature, it is said to be older : 16th century. My impression is that the font is 17th century. I have not seen a similar font yet." [NB: the modern church Rooms-katholieke Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Bijstandkerk, and the churches of Sint-Triden and Sint-Jozef, also in Aalst, have modern fonts in them].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.937778, 4.040556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56' 16" N, 4° 2' 27" E

UTM: 31U 573112 5643421

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Location: on the side of the metal font cover

Inscription Text: "ANNO 1698 GW"

Inscription Source: [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/30271] [accessed 25 April 2022]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1698

Material: metal, brass? / copper?

Apparatus: yes; side crane

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]