Arville / Arville in Saint-Hubert

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Scene Description: "1620"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M227965] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10027396] [accessed 26 December 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Arville, église Saint Paul in straatzicht"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2014 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arville,_église_Saint_Paul_in_straatzicht_foto3_2014-06-12_15.47.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: the date "1620" is on the right side of the pedestal base, hardly visible at all in this photograph

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023

Image Source: digital image of a 1942 B&W photograph [cliché A125548] by Victor Degand, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10027396] [accessed 26 December 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the date "1620" is on the front side of the pedestal base, hardly visible at all in this photograph

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M227965] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10027396] [accessed 26 December 2024]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines / CC-BY-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 25204ARV
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Paul en Arville
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: Rue du Rivage 8, 6870 Saint-Hubert, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N808, W of the N89, in the municipality and 5-6 km W of Saint-Hubert, about 22 km S of Marche-en-Famenne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1620 [base only]
Century and Period: 17th century(early) [base only], Baroque [composite font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10027396]: "fonts baptismaux [...] fût en pierre [...] datation, gravé, sur le fût: : 1620; couvercle en cuivre, de hauteurs respectives 103 et 54 cm" A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 December 2023) adds: "Little information on Internet about this font that seems to be composite. The octagonal basin does not fit on the support column, and could be older than 1620."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.031944, 5.318889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 1′ 55″ N, 5° 19′ 8″ E
UTM: 31U 666070 5544759

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the base
Inscription Text: "1620"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1941-1960(?)
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain dome with orb-and-cross finial; mid-29thC(?)