Wonck / Wonk

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human figure - head

Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W photograph [cliché A064674] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10094248] [accessed 26 December 2023]

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view of basin

Scene Description: the basin before its restoration

Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W photograph [cliché A064673] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10094248] [accessed 26 December 2023]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: with a partial view of the interior of the basin; no drain visible, nor is there a inner lining

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Lambert à Wonck"

Image Source: digital photograph 3 February 2008 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wonck_-_Eglise_Saint-Lambert.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font after its restoration

Image Source: digital image of a 1971 B&W photograph [cliché M082259] by Serge Pluymers, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10094248] [accessed 26 December 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 25208WON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Lambert à Wonck / Sint-Lambertuskerk in Wonck

Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]

Church Location: Rue des Martyrs, 4690 Bassenge, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off the N619, in the municipality and 3 km SW of Bassenge, about 15 km NNE of Liège

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 14th century [basin only], Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Heeswijk-Dinther, the church of Hoeselt, the castle of Zoelen and others [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10094248] [accessed 26 December 2023]: "fonts baptismaux [...] gothique, néo-gothique [...] Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 109 cm" [presumably the date in the listing refers to the basin only, as the base is obviously a modern replacement]. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles, and a plain curved underbowl; raised on a pedestal base made of clustered colonnettes and a plain octagonal lower base; as noted above, only the basin is original. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat [modern]. The same source [cf. supra] lists a wall-mounted holy-water stoup of the 18th century. The entry for this church in the Belgian Wikipedia [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Lambertuskerk_(Wonck)] [accessed 26 December 2023] notes the basin of a 12th century Romanesque baptismal font in it ["Het bekken van het doopvont is romaans (12e eeuw)." A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 21 April 2023) notes: "The late-romanesque/early-gothic, octagonal, limestone, Mosan basin carries 4 big, roughly chiselled heads with strong chin. Similar to the fonts at the castle of Heeswijk-Dinther, at the church of Hoeselt, at the castle of Zoelen (and others ?). The profile at the top of the basin is already gothic, as is the still primitive octagonal form. I would estimate early 14th century ? [cf. KIK-IRPA dating above]. The neo-gothic base has been added around 1945. No information found on the history of the font on Internet. Nor of the church. The tower is the only remnant of the Romanesque church dated approximately 1175."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.768951, 5.62957

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 8.23″ N, 5° 37′ 46.45″ E

UTM: 31U 685418 5627429

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Font Height (less Plinth): 109 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA [includes the modern base]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]