Smeerebbe / Smeerebbe-Vloerzegem / Smerlubium
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 8
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Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M010661] by Luc De Rammelaere KIK, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10970] [accessed 1 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M010661] by Luc De Rammelaere KIK, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10970] [accessed 1 June 2022]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Parochiekerk Smeerebbe" -- 14thC church; completely re-built 1792
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ann Muys, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2012 by Ann Muys [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parochiekerk_Smeerebbe_St_Amandus_(2).JPG] [accessed 1 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Scene Description: srone fnt with a plastered bick loer base; the metal insert in the basin is 19thC [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M010661] by Luc De Rammelaere KIK, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10970] [accessed 1 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23995SME
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint-Amanduskerk / Parochiekerk Smeerebbe
Church Patron Saints: St. Amand [aka Amandus]
Church Location: Smeerebbestraat, 9506 Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located N of the N45/N460, in the sub-municipality of Smeerebbe-Vloerzegem, in the municipality and 6-7 km NE of Geraardsbergen, 25-30 km W of Brussels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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: 14thC church; completely re-built 1792 -- listed church [Onroerend erfgoed 8738]
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10970] [accessed 1 June 2022] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the 14th century [NB: the lower base, howver, is made of platered bricks]; the decoration consists of a torus-scotia-torus on the basin sides, and a eight square flowers around the sides of the underbowl chamfer; an inner basin insert made of metal was added in the 19th century. No cover present.
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 19 May 2022) suggested cognate fonts at Opbrakel, Waarbeke, Sint-Maria-Oudenhove and Nieuwenhove, in the same area.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.81683, 3.92806
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 0.59″ N, 3° 55′ 41.02″ E
UTM: 31U 565377 5629866
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [cf.FontNotes]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal basin insert [cf. FontNotes]
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA