Salles / Aulas / Salles in Chimay

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Eglise paroissiale "Date: 1755 - 1758"

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Image Source: digital image of a 1942 B&W photograph [cliché A028170]] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10059112] [accessed 1 Januaey 2024]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a 1971 B&W photograph by Brigitte Ugeux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10059126] [accessed 1 January 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25227SAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de la Sainte Vierge de Salles
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Place de Salles, 6462 Salles, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N5923, 5 km WNW of Chimay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournai
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: original 9thC chapel or church; replaced by 10thC church; much damaged and re-built since; present church 18thC, re-built 1868
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10059126] [accessed 1 January 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] gothique [...] pierre calcaire [...] Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 119 cm [...] couvercle en laiton de 1930: 58 cm". The font is octagonal overall with mouldings down the pedestal base. The brass cover is a moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.05601, 4.247403
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 3′ 21.64″ N, 4° 14′ 50.65″ E
UTM: 31U 589293 5545603

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1930
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]