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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M071645] by Brigitte Ugeux BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011615] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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design element - patterns - fluted

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M071645] by Brigitte Ugeux BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011615] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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design element - patterns - gadrooned

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M071645] by Brigitte Ugeux BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011615] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M071645] by Brigitte Ugeux BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011615] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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view of object

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M071638] by Brigitte Ugeux BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011614] [accessed 17 April 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24686LAD
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Géry
Church Patron Saints: St. Gaugericus [aka Djèri, Gau, Géry, Gau]
Church Location: Rue de la Liberté 23/1, 7950 Chièvres, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 68 28 28 77
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located 4.5 km WSW of Chièvres, 23 km NE of Mons
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1601-1610?
Century and Period: 17th century(early?), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing these objects to our attention and for his help in documenting them
Church Notes: present church of 1845
Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011615] [accessed 17 April 2023] as a baptismal font made of limestone ca. 1601-1610. 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 fluted and foliage patterns; tiny lower base/plinth; the font is reported in this same source as bearing an inscription, a "marque de carrier". The font cover is described in the same source [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011619] as being made of brass by Nestor Bastien, moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial. Also listed in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011614] [accessed 17 April 2023] is an object in the category of 'bénitier', but described as a stone possible mortar or grain mesaurement, medieval, in a possible date range 1201- 1300.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.568, 3.772

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1910
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]