Fontenaille nr. Mont / Chapelle-Saint-Jacques nr. Fontenaille

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design element - motifs - bulge - 4

Scene Description: not heads

Image Source: digital image of a 1968 B&W negative [cliché M018729] by Raoul Dekemel, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10085052] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-rorus

Image Source: digital image of a 1968 B&W negative [cliché M018729] by Raoul Dekemel, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10085052] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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view of basin in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W negative [cliché A076543] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10085049] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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view of basin in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1968 B&W negative [cliché M018729] by Raoul Dekemel, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10085052] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24450MON

Church/Chapel: Chapelle Saint-Jacques

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: 6661 Fontenaille, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Mont, 1-2 km W of Fontenaille, 5-6 km NNW of Houffalize, 20-25 km N of Bastogne

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur

Historical Region: Ardennes

Font Location in Church: Outside the church

Date: ca. 1573?

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type

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: a church here is mentioned in 1030-1031; re-built ca. 1700

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10085049] [accessed 14 November 2022] as a disused limestone basin of a baptismal font of ca. 1573. The shape appears roughly quadrangular with chamfered corners at the upper end, but the underbowl is octagonal, rounded and plain; no base present. The KIK-IRPA entry [cf. supra] gives the location of the object as "fonts baptismaux déplacés à l'extérieur", and the height of the basin as "55.5 cm". A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 29 July 2022) on the surviving font fragments at Sint-Gitter notes: "the shape of the basin of the old gothic font [at Sint-Gitter] seems unusual. I cannot yet match it with other fonts. Also, I do not really see heads, but bulges. This is something that you can observe on other Mosan fonts, maybe it reduced the costs. The font of Mont is an example."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.1586, 5.78855

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 9' 31" N, 5° 47' 19" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (blue)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Basin Total Height: 55.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA