Houffalize

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Houffalize (Belgium), Saint Catherine of Alexandria church."

Image Source: digital photograph 10 July 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Houffalize_050710_(6).JPG] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Houffalize (Belgium), overview on the city."

Image Source: digital photograph 10 July 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houffalize_JPG01.jpg] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: a modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a 1968 B&W negative [cliché M017221] by Raoul Dekemel, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10084690] [accessed 13 November 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "La cuve des fonts baptismaux, à l’instar du bénitier et de la fontaine de la sacristie, est en marbre rouge de Rochefort. Elle proviendrait de la chapelle de l’ancien château de Houffalize, où des fonts avaient été placés, en 1590, à cause de l’éloignement de l’église paroissiale et de l’insécurité régnant alors." -- a modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 2007 by Patrick Germain [https://www.mediardenne.net/leglise-sainte-catherine-a-houffalize/] [accessed 13 November 2022]:

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Houffalize (Belgium), nave and choir of Saint Catherine of Alexandria church." -- a modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 10 July 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Houffalize_050710_(9).JPG] [accessed 13 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 24446HOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Catherine à Houffalize

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]

Church Location: rue Ville-Basse, 6660 Houffalize, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N30 [aka rue de Liège], E of highway E25, in the Parc National des Deux Ourthes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur

Historical Region: Ardennes

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early Gothic

Church Notes: originally Augustin priory church; Early-Gothic portal of 1243; modified 17th and 18thC; much damaged in WWII; re-built thereafter -- listed monument [82014-CLT-0002-01]

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A font in this church is listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10084690] [accessed 13 November 2022] as made of marble between 1791 and 1800; it consists of a moulded square basin on a quadragular bedestal base. Another font, also modern, is described and illustrated by Patrick Germain (2007) [https://www.mediardenne.net/leglise-sainte-catherine-a-houffalize/] [accessed 13 November 2022]: "La cuve des fonts baptismaux, à l’instar du bénitier et de la fontaine de la sacristie, est en marbre rouge de Rochefort. Elle proviendrait de la chapelle de l’ancien château de Houffalize, où des fonts avaient été placés, en 1590, à cause de l’éloignement de l’église paroissiale et de l’insécurité régnant alors." [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.088525, 5.839319

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 5′ 18.69″ N, 5° 50′ 21.55″ E

UTM: 31U 703097 5552335