Poulseur

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 17 May 2023 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 June 2023)

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: no drain, no lining

Image Source: digital photograph 17 May 2023 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 June 2023)

view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église de Poulseur."

Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2011 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20110801_poulseur01.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2023]

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view of font and context

Scene Description: the 17thC(?) basin on a modern replacement base; the brass cover is from 1845

Image Source: digital image of a 1970 B&W photograph [cliché M055630] by Serge Pluymers, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10003896] [accessed 28 December 2023]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 17 May 2023 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 June 2023)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 17 May 2023 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 June 2023)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 17 May 2023 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 June 2023)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25215POU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale du Sacré-Cœur à Poulseur

Church Patron Saints: Sacred Heart [formerly St. Servatius]

Church Location: Place Puissant 4171 Poulseur, Belgique -- Tel.: +32 4380 4611

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N633, on the S bank of the Ourthe river, 18-20 km S of Liège

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SE area of the nave

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 17th century[basin only], Baroque [altered font]

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

Church Notes: 11thC [ca. 1090?] chapel; re-built 1510; enlarged 1645, 1761; re-built 1844; restored 1906

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

17th-century basin of a baptismal font, the base is a modern replacement of ca. 1906, listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10003896] [accessed 28 December 2023] ["fonts baptismaux [...] Date [basin]: 1601 (ca) - 1700 (ca) [...] Date [base]: 1906 [...] hauteur: 165 cm [inludes cover] [...] pied, vers 1906, hauteur:70 cuve, XVIIe, hauteur:33 couvercle, daté 1845, laiton hauteur: 62". The upper rim of the basin shows evidence of anchorings for a cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.5086, 5.5803

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 30′ 30.96″ N, 5° 34′ 49.08″ E

UTM: 31U 682953 5598362

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Total Height: 70 cm*

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1845

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: graded round domes with orb-and-cross finial