Hainin / Haynin
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église d'Hainin."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herpoel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 24 March 2014 by Herpoel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hainin02.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 June 2022]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M093774] by Brigitte Ugeux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10021216] [accessed 27 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24065HAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Vièrge of Hainin [aka Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation]
Church Patron Saints: The Visitation of St. Mary
Church Location: rue d'Hainin 4-6, 7350 Hensies, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located 2 km ENE of Thulin, 7 km N of Dour, 12 km W of Mons
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournai
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century[composite font?], Late Medieval / Baroque [composite]
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: earlier church 12thC much modified and re-built since; became parochial 1310; present church 1730s with 1626 tower
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10021216] [accessed 27 June 2022] as a baptismal font dated 1551-1610. The font consists of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a pedestal base of baluster shape that clearly does not match the top [cf. infra]. Middle-dome cover of wood with acorn(?) finial.
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 6 June 2022) notes: "The baptismal font is composite. The octagonal limestone basin resembles the basin of Gussignies, the bowl shaped basin has therefore gothic and baroque elements. The column and the base do not fit well onto the bottom of the basin, and are certainly later [...] Maybe the destruction of the village in 1572 could be a good lead for dating this font’s basin, or the building of the new choir in 1616. Genicot dates it 17th."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal