Gottignies / Gotgnî / Gotigneis / Gotignîye
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Gottignies (Belgique), le quartier de l’église Saint-Léger."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 17 December 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gottignies_QE1JPG.jpg] [accessed 26 December 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: "fonts baptismaux [...] Date: 1491 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 101 cm" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1968 B&W photograph [cliché M037957] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10036285] [accessed 26 December 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25209GOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Léger de Gottignies / Sint-Leodegariuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Location: Pl. de Gottignies 4, 7070 Le Rœulx, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 67 33 26 68
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Gottignies is a hamlet of Le Rœulx, about 4 km W of it, located off (N) the E42
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournais [earlier Cambrai]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: present church 1719
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10036285] [accessed 26 December 2023]: "fonts baptismaux [...] Date: 1491 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 101 cm"; the entry mentions a font cover of copper "Date: 1941 - 1960". The village description and historical article of 2018 [http://www.valleedelahaine.be/wp/gottignies/] [accessed 26 December 2023] includes "Une réflexion sur 'Gottignies'" by Pol Herman (24/04/2023): "L’église actuelle fût bâtie en 1719. Mais les fonts baptismaux sont plus vieux."
A communication to BSI by Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 April 2023) notes: "Rather unusual combination of polished (marble-like) and unpolished Hainaut-limestone on this 16th century font. https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10036285. To me, it looks like the font could be a century older. Found no information on the older church building."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.495556, 4.0625
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 29′ 44″ N, 4° 3′ 45″ E
UTM: 31U 575360 5594270
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Hainaut)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1941-1960 (?)
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dme shape [cf. FontNotes]