Sensenruth / Salcenrivi / Sansanrë / Sansanrieux

The fragment of a baptismal font here is described in the Annales de la société pour la conservation des monuments historiques et des œuvres d’art dans la province du Luxembourg, 1849-1850 & 1505-1851 (Arlon: Imprimerie de P.-A. Bruck (1852) as containing the head of a pagan deity, embedded in the exterior walls of the church. It is difficult to recognize her. It is claimed to be the figure of Diana. Noted and illustrated in Tollenaere (1957). A fragment of a 12th-century Mosan limestone baptismal font is reported and illustrated as found built into the north wall of the nave in G. Hossey's Fouilles d'églises dans le Luxembourg (Bruxelles, 1975) [https://oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/publicaties/ARBE/176/ARBE176-001.pdf] [accessed 29 October 2023]: "Fragment de fonts baptismaux de style roman. Calcaire bleu de Meuse, datation : XII° siècle. Provenance : scellé dans Ie mur nord de la nef". The entry for this church in Egliseinfo.be [https://www.egliseinfo.be/lieu/68/sensenruth/saint-lambert] [accessed 29 October 2023] reports that the limestone lower base of the font is 12th-century, whereas the stem and the basin are 16th-century; it also mentions a fragment of a corner head from the original basin ["les fonts baptismaux dont il ne subsiste que la base quadrangulaire (XIIème siècle) en calcaire carbonifère. Le support et la cuve datent du XVIème siècle, quant au couvercle, il est de la fin du XIXème siècle. A noter aussi des fragments de tête d'angle (XIIème) en calcaire carbonifère. (Source texte : MT du Pays de Bouillon)"]. The entry in Connaître la Wallonie [https://connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be/en/node/6308] [accessed 29 October 2023] specifies that the surviving fragment [cf. supra] is actually built into the south wall of the nave [cf. supra]. The fragment of the basin as listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10078377] [accessed 29 Octiober 2023] [NB: the image is flipped horizontally in the 1969 cliché M028174]: "fonts baptismaux, objet (fragment) [...] pierre calcaire [...] hauteur: 20 cm; largeur: 34 cm; profondeur: 12 cm".