Asse

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " België - Vlaams Brabant - Asse - Sint-Martinuskerk"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 6 April 2018 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:België_-_Asse_-_Sint-Martinuskerk_-_01.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2022]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: " België - Vlaams Brabant - Asse - Sint-Martinuskerk"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 6 April 2018 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:België_-_Asse_-_Sint-Martinuskerk_-_13.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2018

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 April 2018 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:België_-_Asse_-_Sint-Martinuskerk_-_13.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font or stoup

Scene Description: described in 1973 as a stoup [="wijwatervat"] but now [2022] used as baptismal font [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022

Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M209632] by Cécile Octors, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/1639] [accessed 24 April 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23891ASS
Church/Chapel: Sint-Martinuskerk te Asse
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Kerkplein, 1730 Asse, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off the N285 [aka Nieuwstraat]-N9 [aka Kalkoven] crossroads, 10-12 km NW of Brussels city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Mechelen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: there may have been a church here since the 11thC; present church 13thC church was mother church with ten chapels of ease, among them Baardegem; modified 17thC; listed [76674] since 1940
The entry for this church in the Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed 2022: Parochiekerk Sint-Martinus [https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/76674 (Geraadpleegd op 24-04-2022) [accessed 23 April 2022] reports a baptismal fo the 17th century in it. The entry for this church in BALaT KIK-IRPA does not mention a font but it does list and illustrate a stone object which it describes as a holy-water stoup [="wijwatervat"] [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/1639] [accessed 24 April 2022]; the object consists of an oval basin on a round pedestal base and an octagonal lower base, and is dated 1600-1699. A 2018 photograph, however, shows the same object in the chancel, furmished with a font cover and obviously being used as a baptismal font. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.911131, 4.196107
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 40.07″ N, 4° 11′ 45.98″ E
UTM: 31U 584089 5640624

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: oval dome with orb-and-cross finial