Wasseiges / Wazèdje

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] received from Pol Herman

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] received from Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Saint Martin in Wasseiges, Liège, Belgium"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 28 June 2009 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wasseiges_-_Eglise_Saint-Martin.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 20 September 2023]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023

Image Source: digital image of a 1972 B&W photograph [cliché M207114] by Charles Mahaux in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002415 ] [accessed 20 September 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] received from Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] received from Pol Herman

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view of font cover - finial

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023

Image Source: digital image of a 1972 B&W photograph [cliché M207115] by Charles Mahaux in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002415 ] [accessed 20 September 2023]

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view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] received from Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] received from Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 24936WAS
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin / Sint-Martinuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Pl. Communale 5, 4219 Wasseiges, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the N624-N652 crossroads, about 20 km NE of Namur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: similar font basin at Noduwez
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002415] [accessed 20 September 2023]: "fonts baptismaux 1501-1600 [...] hauteur: 81 cm [...] couvercle en laiton, hauteur ca 68 [...] crucifix, XVIIe, 36.5 x 32.5". A round basin with a moulding at the upper rim and four human heads set at 90-degree angles; raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base. Hemispherical-shaped dome cover with 17th-century cross finial. The same source lists a stone holy-water stoup of 1791-1800 [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10002414] [accessed 20 September 2023]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.616667, 5
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 37′ 0″ N, 5° 0′ 0″ E
UTM: 31U 641487 5609107

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: the cross finial 17thC [cf. FontNotes]