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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of the four heads from the medieval font now built into the 1920s font

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045368] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120128] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of the four heads from the medieval font, now built into the 1920s font

Image Source: digital photograph in Protection Patrimoine Saint-Fontaine [https://qvw.be/fr-la-chapelle-notre-dame-de-saint-fontaine-clavier-et-sa-pierre-de-liberte.html] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue du chateau et de la chapelle de Saint-Fontaine, et de la haie qui entoure la chapelle"

Image Source: digital photograph 17 April 2011 by Julienfastre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chateau_et_chapelle_de_Saint-Fontaine.jpg] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of church interior - niche - detail

Scene Description: known as one of the few surviving examples of a medieval "pierre de liberté": "A l'intérieur, on y trouve une curieuse pierre à colonnettes du XIIe ou du XIVe siècle dite pierre de liberté. Cette pierre symbolisait le droit d'asile. Elles ont pratiquement toutes été détruites pendant la Révolution Française, sauf quelques unes qui ont été oubliées." [https://www.eauxetchateaux.be/decouvertes/patrimoine/item/365-chapelle-notre-dame] [accessed 29 December 2023]

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045373] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120094] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of church interior - niche - detail

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view of church interior - niche in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045372] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120094] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of church interior - niche in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045374] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120094] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045366] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120128] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: only the four heads set at 90-degree angles of the basin are from the medieval(?) fom; the rest is dated to the 1920s

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045367] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120128] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: only the four heads set at 90-degree angles of the basin are from the medieval(?) fom; the rest is dated to the 1920s

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "bénitier [...] pierre de petit granit [...] Date: 1601 (incertain) - 1700 (incertain) [...] auteur: 28 cm; largeur: 25 cm; longueur: 35 cm"

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A045362] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120127] [accessed 29 December 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25217FON

Church/Chapel: Chapelle romane Notre‐Dame à Saint‐Fontaine

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Rue Saint-Fontaine 3, Saint-Fontaine, 4560 Clavier (Pailhe), Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N636 [aka Rte. de Givet], 4 km N of Havelange, 6-7 km WNW of Clavier, about 40 km SW of Liège

Historical Region: Le Condroz

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan 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 manorial Romanesque chapel; became parochial 1320; enlarged 16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the 1920s incorporating four 12th-century(?) heads is listed in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10120128] [accessed 29 December 2023]; the flour heads are dated in this source "1101-1200 : quatre têtes d'angle", whereas the rest of the font is described as "1922-1924 : la cuve et le pied style néo-roman par les Ateliers de Maredsous [...] hauteur: 128 cm". 'La chapelle romane Notre-Dame à Saint-Fontaine (Clavier)' by the Comité de Protection du Patrimoine de Saint-Fontaine (P.P.S.F.), Décembre 2017 notes and illustrates a wall-mounted holy-water stoup made of granite in the 17th-century, and a composite font in the porch; the font is modern, neo-Gothic, but incorporates four human heads at the angles, Romanesque, 12th-century ["La cuve et le pied, de style néo‐roman, furent taillés par les Ateliers de Maredsous en 1922‐1924 et quatre têtes d’angle romanes (XIIe siècle) y ont été apposées. Le couvercle est en laiton. – Cuve cylindrique entièrement refaite, cantonnée de quatre têtes masculines, de type cylindrique, reprises à la cuve primitive ; visages allongés, coiffés de toques plates ; yeux rapprochés, à pupille en forme d’amande saillante, cernés d’un bourrelet ; large nez triangulaire ; bouche à peine entaillée ; ni cheveux, ni oreilles ; autrefois ces têtes étaient amorties par une console à moulure en talon. Décor actuel inspiré du décor primitif : arcs presque carrés portés, aux extrémités de chaque panneau, par un pilastre lisse. Support primitif à une grosse colonne cantonnée de quatre colonnettes, renouvelé. ‐ Calcaire bleu de Meuse, à patine gris clair. ‐ Type des fonts de Wijshagen."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.414773, 5.243155

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 24′ 53.18″ N, 5° 14′ 35.36″ E

UTM: 31U 659365 5587153

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Font Height (less Plinth): 128 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * for the re-constructed font [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: low-dome cover [cf. FontNotes]