Zarlardinge / Saroldingas / Soraldengies

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Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2021

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2021 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 May 2022)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M015417] by Luc De Rammelaere in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/3894] [accessed 28 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zarlardinge, parochiekerk Onze-Lieve-Vrouw. Geraardsbergen. Oost-Vlaanderen. Belgium."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2020 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_122935_B_Zarlardinge.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 23990ZAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1607
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Parochiekerk Onze-Lieve-Vrouw / Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk Zarlardinge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church here owned nid-12thC by Lobbes Abbey (documented 1142); 13thC tower remains after the church was destroyed in 1578; re-built 1728;
Church Address: Zarlardingeplein, 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Site Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located W of the N42, in km W of Goeferdinge, in the municipality and just W of Geraardsbergen,N of Lessen
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/3894] [accessed 17 April 2023] as a baptismal font of stone dated 1607 by an inscription. Baptismal font of limestone consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a a round pedestal base; the basin has a prominent moulding at the upper rim, with a band of round niches or windows below; on one side the row is interrupted by a carved inscription with the "1607" date; a roll moulding marks the start of the underbowl, which is decorated with a pattern of prominent gadroons all around; the round stem has fluted pattern all around, with a roll moulding at each end, but there is a band of leaf motif around the bottom of the stem; the wider circular lower base has graded mouldings all around. There is a metal cover, low-dome with a cross finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 558420 5623680

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Hainaut)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: basin side, below the rim
Inscription Text: "1607"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes[
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]