Tollembeek

INFORMATION

Font ID: 24685TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Kerk Sint-Martinus, Tellembeek
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Plaats, 1570 Galmaarden - Tollembeek, Belgium
Site Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N272, , 30-35 km WSW of Brussels
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it

COORDINATES

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

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]