Jupille-sur-Ourthe / Jupille en Rendeux

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view of church exterior - west view
view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite font: 12thC basin on a 16thC base
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Image Source: digital photograph in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/fr/edifices/saint-remacle-1] [accessed 22 December 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25185JUP
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Remacle à Jupille
Church Patron Saints: St. Remaclus [aka Remacle, Remaculus, Rimagilus (d. 673)]
Church Location: 6887 Jupille, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off the N833 [Rue du Moulin], on the W bank of the Ourthe river, 6 km NW of La Roche-en-Ardenne, E of Marche-en-Famenne [formerly in the municipality of Hodister; later in the municipality and SW of Rendeux]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- 16th century[base only], Medieval [composite font?]
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: church mentioned 9thC; severely damaged 18thC; re-built late-19thC; restored 1974
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The baptismal font here is noted in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022028] [accessed 22 December 2023] as a composite font of a 12th-dentury basin and a 16th-century base, with a ca. 1960 font cover by J. Gresse [NB: the BALaT link to a 1973 photograph by Raoul Dekemel is broken and the image is not accessible at this time [22 December 2023]]. The entry for this church in Open Churches [https://openchurches.eu/fr/edifices/saint-remacle-1] [accessed 22 December 2023] notes and illustrates the baptismal font in it, a composite object made up of a 12th-century limestone basin on a 16th-century base; the font cover ewas made by J. Gresse, of Marcourt, in 1966: "L'église a gardé à l'entrée le baptistère avec les fonts baptismaux. Les fonts baptismaux sont constitués d'une cuve baptismale romane (12ème siècle) en calcaire. Elle repose sur un socle gothique (16ème siècle) en pierre d'une hauteur de 50 centimètres ; celui-ci pourrait être la base d'un tabernacle mural. La cuve est fermée par un couvercle (1966) surmonté d'un cerf et d'une biche de part et d'autre d'une croix, le tout en fer forgé ; il est l'œuvre de J. Gresse de Marcourt. Le cerf est l'image du catéchumène soupirant après l'eau du baptême." The rather crude limestone basin is round, between cylindrical and hemispherical, and has been attached to to a 16th-century polygonal pedestal base. The metal cover is modern [cf. supra] with a Latin cross and two deer on it.
A communication to BSI by Pol Herman (email of 8 April 2023) cites Henry d'Otreppe de Bouvette's Cuves baptismales « romanes » en arkose, 2e partie, 1997, Glain et Salm, Haute Ardenne, N° 46, as source [not corroborated -- article N/A]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.2085845° 32′ 14.58″ E,
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 12′ 30.9″ N,
5° 32′ 14.58″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone (arkose)?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Basin Total Height: 48 cm*
Height of Base: 50 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1966
Material:
metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]