Comblain-au-Pont / Comblin-å-Pont / Comblinen

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Image Source: digital image of a 1971 B&W photograph [cliché M082192] by Serge Pluymers, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10003747] [accessed 30 December 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Spurce caption: "église Saint-Martin, Comblain-au-Pont, Belgique"

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Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comblain-au-Pont-église_Saint-Martin.jpg] [accessed 30 December 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - bell tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tour Saint-Martin et le cimetière, Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium" -- the surviving tower of the medieval church in the context of the cemetery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerdami, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 26 February 2012 by Gerdami [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_Saint-Martin_Comblain_2.jpg] [accessed 30 December 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - south west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Composite panorama of Comblain-au-Pont from above" -- showing the present church in the bottom-right corner of the image; the composite photograph was taken from the surviving tower of the medieval church, on a height and quite a distance away from the core of the village

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Edgar, 2007

Image Source: composite digital photograph 11 March 2007 by David Edgar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ComblainAuPontPanorama.jpg] [accessed 30 December 2023]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2019 [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 14th-15thC font after its 1930 re-carving [cf. FontNotes]

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

Image Source: digital image of a 1971 B&W photograph [cliché M082192] by Serge Pluymers, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10003747] [accessed 30 December 2023]

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

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2019 [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2019 [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25224COM
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de Comblain-au-Pont
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Pl. Leblanc, 4170 Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 4 380 46 11
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N654 [aka Rue du Grand Pré] , on the W bank of the Ourthe river, 15-16 km S of Liège
Historical Region: Le Condroz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [altered], Late Gothic [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: church documented 1130-1131; abandoned in favour of a new more accessible church built in 1853, re-using some of the stones from the old church; only the tour remains from the old church now;
Noted in Brassine (1937) as a baptismal font totally re-carved by an over-zealous local mason who had been tasked byt the parish priest to give it just a superficial re-tooling ["Les fonds [sic] baptismaux en pierre bleue sont du XIVème siècle, mais ils ont été fort remaniés vers 1930. Le curé avait confié à un tailleur de pierre local le soin d’apporter à la cuve une très légère restauration. Lorsqu’il revint après une absence de quelques heures, il eut la stupeur de constater que l’ouvrier, persuadé de faire merveille, avait complètement retaillé les fonts"]. Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10003747] [accessed 30 December 2023]: "fonts baptismaux [...] Date: 1401 (ca) - 1500 (ca) [...] retaillés vers 1930". [NB: it is not clear from the sources how much of the orignal font remains; perhaps just the re-carved basin?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.476, 5.574757
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 28′ 33.6″ N, 5° 34′ 29.12″ E
UTM: 31U 682685 5594724

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome-shaped cover with orb-and-cross finial

REFERENCES

Brassine, Joseph, "Dans l'église de Comblain-au-Pont", 30 (1937), Léodium, 1937, pp. 23-30; r["References"]