Rebecq-Rognon No. 1 / R'bek / Rosbacem

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: " Rebecq (Belgique), l'église Saint-Géry (1867 - Architecte: Coulon)."

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2005 by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rebecq_JPG00.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the former baptismal font now used as holy-water stoup in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph in Paroisse Saint-Géry de Rebecq-Rognon [http://paroissesaintgeryrebecq.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/feuillet-église.pdf] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font in use seen here on the left

Image Source: digital image in Rewisbique - asbl [https://www.rewisbique.eu/bib9c3c.php] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/fr/edifices/saint-gery-rebecq] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24682REB

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Géry de Rebecq-Rognon

Church Patron Saints: St. Gaugericus [aka Djèri, Gau, Géry, Gau]

Church Location: Rue de la Cure 2, 1430 Rebecq, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 67 44 32 89

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off the RE429/A8, about 27 km SW of Brussels

Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the NW corner of the nave

Date: 1599

Century and Period: 16th century(late),

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: present church 1867 replaced 16thC building [there may have been an earlier church or oratory in place before the latter]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of stone listed in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10026407] [accessed 17 April 2023]; it bears an inscription with yje name of the donor, Jacque de Gasse, and the date of the donation, 1599; the height is given as 126 cm. The entry for this church in the parish site [http://paroissesaintgeryrebecq.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/feuillet-église.pdf] [accessed 17 April 2023] notes: "Ces fonts baptismaux en pierre bleue portent l’inscription suivante : «Jaque Le Gosse l’a donné. 1599 ». La cuve circulaire d’un diamètre de 85 cm est supportée par une colonne trapue cannelée et décorée de fruits, d’une hauteur de 1,25 m."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 125 / 126 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: "Jaque Le Gasse l’a donné. 1599 "

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: moulded dome with orb-san-cross finial