Hoogstraten
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché B025160] by Bernard Janssens, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/40318] [accessed 21 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 4
Scene Description: on alternate sides of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché B025160] by Bernard Janssens, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/40318] [accessed 21 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché B025160] by Bernard Janssens, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/40318] [accessed 21 December 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hoogstraten. Decanale kerk Sint-Catharina"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 19 April 2015 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:46578_Decanale_kerk_Sint-Catharina_2.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché B025160] by Bernard Janssens, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/40318] [accessed 21 December 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hoogstraten. Decanale kerk Sint-Catharina"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 19 April 2015 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:46578_Decanale_kerk_Sint-Catharina_7.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hoogstraten. Decanale kerk Sint-Catharina"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 19 April 2015 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:46578_Decanale_kerk_Sint-Catharina_8.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché B025160] by Bernard Janssens, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/40318] [accessed 21 December 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "De kerk in puin (1944)" -- the retiring German army dynamited the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sint-Katharinakerk Hoogstraten, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1944 photograph in Sint-Katharinakerk Hoogstraten [https://sintkatharinakerk.be/ontdekken/geschiedenis/] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: showing the wall-mounted crabe; it was restored in 1963 [cf. FontNotes]
Image Source: digital photograph 11 June 2005 [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25181HOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid?)
Church / Chapel Name: Decanale Sint-Katharinakerk in Hoogstraten [aka Kathedraal van de Kempen / ons Katrien]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Church Notes: small Romanesque church re-built in Gothic style in the 13th and 14th centuries and after a fire in 1442; completely demolished before construction of the current church began; tower blown up by retreating German army in October 1944; re-built; church restored 2017-2026
The St. Catherine's Church in Hoogstraten was built in late Gothic style between 1525 and 1550
Church Address: Vrijheid 153, 2320 Hoogstraten, Belgium
Site Location: Antwerp, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N14 [aka Vrijheid], about 40 km NE of Antwerp, just W of the border with the Netherlands
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Antwerp]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Romanesque church here)
Font Notes:
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The mid-16th(?) century baptismal font, its font cover and crane are listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/40318] [accessed 21 December 2023]: "doopvont, doopvontgalg [...] Date: 1501 (ca) - 1600 (ca)" [NB: the KIK-IRPA entry gives the height as "hoogte: 227 cm", which includes the total height of the crane mechanism]. The metal font cover is a stepped dome, handled with a wall-mounted metal crane ["arm hersmeed in 1963"]. The entry for this church in the Dutch Wikipedia [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Katharinakerk_(Hoogstraten)] [accessed 21 December 2023] reports a baptismal font of the 16th century in it.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 622562 5695874
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.400833, 4.761944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 24′ 3″ N, 4° 45′ 43″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Notes on Measurements: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1670
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: yes; metal wall-mounted crane [repaired 1963]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]