Godinne No. 1 / Gôdene
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Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M229437] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022519] [accessed 25 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - scallop - 12
Scene Description: large scallops, three on each side of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M229437] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022519] [accessed 25 December 2023]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Pierre [Godinne]. la façade Nord"
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Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M229414] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022498] [accessed 25 December 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Godinne (Belgique), l'église Saint-Pierre (XVII/XVIIIe siècles) en bord de Meuse."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 4 March 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godinne_050403_(6).JPG] [accessed 25 December 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the composite font and its cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A043218] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022519] [accessed 25 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M229437] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022519] [accessed 25 December 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25200GOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] -- 16th century[base only], Medieval [composite font?]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Perre de Godinne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: early-16thC [ca. 1500?] church; modified 1606 and 1768
Church Address: Rue du Prieuré, Godinne, 5530 Yvoir, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 486 74 00 75
Site Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N92, in the municipality of Yvoir, on the N bank of the Meuse river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Historical Region: Ardenne belge
Additional Comments: composite font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font described and illustrated in Gaiffier (1875) who does mention the composite characteristic of this font, but attributes it to the date of the present building [i.e., the 16th century]: "L'église de Godinne n'a conservé de sa construction primitive que les pans coupés de l'abside, ajourés de tiers-points, sans meneaux, à l'exception de la baie terminale qui montre encore trois divisions de pierre en ogives subtrilobées, avec trèfles au tympan. Si l'on pénètre dans ce modeste temple, on remarquera, sous le jubé, et renfermé dans une armoire à claire-voie, de jolis fonts baptismaux dont nous donnons ci-joint un tracé fidèle. Ces fonts sont monopodes, à calice polygonal, tapissé, sur ses diverses faces, de faibles reliefs dessinant des segments de cercle. Chanfrainée en biseau et dépourvue d'ornementation, l'assise inférieure de l'entablement porte sur un abaque à huit côtés, qui constitue le membre supérieur du pédicule, et dont il inscrit la forme circulaire. Par suite de cette disposition, le pédicule offre en quelque sorte l'image d'une corbeille de chapiteau, refouillée de feuillages vigoureusement découpés. Une moulure en scotie, qui le contourne à la base, a pour fonction d'atténuer la transition de cette forme cylindrique au socle polygonal, sur lequel se trouvent reproduits, mais plus bas d'échelle, les feuillages moulurés du support. L'uniformité de coupe de cette oeuvre, et, par-dessus tout, la sculpture énergique et profondément ciselée, témoignent d'une époque assez avancée et que nous croyons voisine des derniers temps de l'architecture ogivale. A cet âge semble pouvoir être aussi attribuée l'édification de l'église de Godinne."
Composite baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022519] [accessed 25 December 2023] consisting of a 13th-century(?) basin ["Date: 1201 (incertain) - 1300 (incertain)"] and a 16th-century(?) base ["Date: 1501 (incertain) - 1600 (incertain)"]; 111 cm in height ["hauteur: 111 cm"]; the brass font cover of the 20th century ["Date: 1951 (incertain) - 1975"].
Composite baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10022519] [accessed 25 December 2023] consisting of a 13th-century(?) basin ["Date: 1201 (incertain) - 1300 (incertain)"] and a 16th-century(?) base ["Date: 1501 (incertain) - 1600 (incertain)"]; 111 cm in height ["hauteur: 111 cm"]; the brass font cover of the 20th century ["Date: 1951 (incertain) - 1975"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 632718 5579380
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.351525, 4.865572
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 21′ 5.49″ N, 4° 51′ 56.06″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 111 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1951-1975?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome with orb-and-cross finial
REFERENCES
- Gaiffier, Alberic de, "Note sur quelques fonts batismaux de la province de Namur", XIII (1875), Annales de la Société archéologique de Namur, 1875, pp. 241-257; p. 241-257