Tollembeek

INFORMATION

FontID: 24685TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Kerk Sint-Martinus, Tellembeek
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Plaats, 1570 Galmaarden - Tollembeek, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off the N272, , 30-35 km WSW of Brussels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/1402] [accessed 17 April 2023]: 17th-century baptismal font made of limestone and topped with a metal font cover. A font very similar to others of this period in the area: roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a band of geometric motifs below the upper rim, gadrooned underbowl; baluster-shaped pedestal base with flutted and foliage patterns; tiny lower base/plinth. Metal font cover, moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.741667, 4.007778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 30″ N, 4° 0′ 28″ E
UTM: 31U 571107 5621582

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]