Vosselaar

Image copyright © Paul Van Hal / Stadsarchief Turnhout, 1950

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: notice the damage; it may be associate to a metal anchiring for a font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie O.-L.-Vrouw Vosselaar, 2023

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Parochie O.-L.-Vrouw Vosselaar [https://www.kerknet.be/parochie-o-l-vrouw-vosselaar/artikel/doopcatechese-2023-2024-lichtmisviering-2023?microsite=1659] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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inscription

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie O.-L.-Vrouw Vosselaar, 2023

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Parochie O.-L.-Vrouw Vosselaar [https://www.kerknet.be/parochie-o-l-vrouw-vosselaar/artikel/doopcatechese-2023-2024-lichtmisviering-2023?microsite=1659] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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view of basin and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jos Vangeel, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 21 June 2022 by Jos Vangeel [https://www.kerknet.be/parochie-o-l-vrouw-vosselaar/fotoreportage/fotos-van-onze-kerk] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vosselaar, nabij Turnhout, prov. Antwerpen, België. Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk met neogotisch schip (af 1886, n.o.v. arch. Taeymans) en laatgotische westertoren (16e eeuw) = Vosselaar (anc. Vosselaer), commune près de Turnhout, prov. d'Anvers (Belgique). Église Notre-Dame avec nef néo-gothique (date d'achèvement 1886, arch. Taeymans) et clocher occidental de style gothique tardif (XVIe siècle)."

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 June 2009 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vosselaar_Kerk1.JPG] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vosselaar (bij Turnhout), prov. Antwerpen, België. Binnenaanzicht neogotische Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk (1886)."

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Image Source: digital photograph 29 June 2009 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vosselaar_Kerk2.JPG] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parochie O.-L.-Vrouw Vosselaar, 2023

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Parochie O.-L.-Vrouw Vosselaar [https://www.kerknet.be/parochie-o-l-vrouw-vosselaar/artikel/doopcatechese-2023-2024-lichtmisviering-2023?microsite=1659] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Foto van het interieur van de Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk te Vosselaar met een zicht op de doopvont, arduin en koper, 1609." [NB: note the wall-mounted crane attached to the cover at the time]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Van Hal / Stadsarchief Turnhout, 1950

Image Source: digital image of a 1930-1950 photograph [FOTO 05216_01] by Paul Van Hall, in the Stadsarchief Turnhout [https://collecties.kempenserfgoed.be/stadsarchief-turnhout/object/foto-0521601?tab=hr_request&nav_id=0-1&index=44&imgid=608363027&id=609599324] [accessed 5 October 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24972VOS
Church/Chapel: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe parochiekerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Remi Lensplein, 2350 Vosselaar, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Antwerp, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N12, 4 km W of Turnhout
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Antwerpen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of S aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1609
Century and Period: 17th century(early),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; re-built ca. 1430; re-built 1877 retaining the Gothic tower
The entry for this church in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/12405] [accessed 5 October 2023] mentions a baptismal font of bluestone and copper ["doopvont, arduin en koper, 1609"], the "koper" must refer to the font cover, a low-dome of brass with copper accents and orb-and-cross finial; the font itself consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with a moulding at the upper rim; it has the date 1609 carved on the side, and is raised on a round pedestal base of the baluster type. [NB: an early photograph [cf. ImagesArea] shows a wall-mounted crane atached to the top of the font cover, with the font relatively closed to a wall; now [2020] the font is at the east end of the south aisle and the cover is free of any attachments]. No entry found for this font in BALaT KIK-IRPA.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.312753, 4.887051
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 18′ 45.91″ N, 4° 53′ 13.39″ E
UTM: 31U 631516 5686296

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Text: "1609"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: yes; wall-mounted crane [ca. 1930-1950?]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]