Ham-sur-Meuse

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: a row of, all around

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman (4 November 2022) [NB: the source may be the Inventaire-Chalons web site but the link is not working]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the much damaged upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman (4 November 2022) [NB: the source may be the Inventaire-Chalons web site but the link is not working]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ham-sur-Meuse"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Titoine08, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2010 by Titoine08 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamsm2.JPG] [accessed 26 September 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: appears to be disused

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman (4 November 2022) [NB: the source may be the Inventaire-Chalons web site but the link is not working]

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman (4 November 2022) [NB: the source may be the Inventaire-Chalons web site but the link is not working]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: appears to be disused; the cover is partially visible behind

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman (4 November 2022) [NB: the source may be the Inventaire-Chalons web site but the link is not working]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24948HAM
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicaise d'Ham-sur-Meuse
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicasius [aka Nichasius]
Church Location: Rue Principale, 08600 Ham-sur-Meuse, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D8051, on the E bank of the Meuse river, about equidistant between Charleroi (NW) and Charleville-Mézières (SSE), near the Belgian border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Baptismal font of stone made up of three blocks: the basin has a narrow side decorated with a row of round arch-heads, the tall underbowl plain and tapering in; plain cylindrical stem; plain circular lower base. Fancy metal font cover with four levels of decoration and a cross finial. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 4 November 2022) provided a URL for the Chalons inventory page [https://inventaire-chalons.grandest.fr/gertrude-diffusion/dossier/fonts-baptismaux/c322b16f-2644-4736-8a32-80b940a308be] but we have not been able to open it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.11263, 4.78061
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 6′ 45.47″ N, 4° 46′ 50.2″ E
UTM: 31U 627309 5552672

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]