Fosse / Fosse-sur-Salm / Fosse-Trois Ponts / Saint-Jacques Trois-Ponts

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fosse doit avoir eu un sanctuaire antérieur à l'époque romane (cf. les fouilles menées du 14 au 23 novembre 1961 par Joseph Mertens et F. Bourgeois, ainsi que la tradition rapportant qu'au VIIe siècle, le sanctuaire de Fosse dépendait de l'abbaye de Stavelot). Au XIIe siècle, les églises de Fosse et Wanne furent réunies, l'insuffisance des revenus de l'église de Wanne ne lui permettant pas de garder son indépendance. Fosse fut érigée en paroisse en 1803. L'église de 1837 dont la tour était romane, fut remplacée entre 1856 et 1862. Cette dernière construction, gravement endommagée en 1944, fut démolie fin de l'année 1961 (?). L'actuel sanctuaire s'élève sur un plan rectangulaire, il est précédé d'une tour quadrangulaire, côté occidental."

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M235221] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10106706] [accessed 20 January 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font after its restoration to the inside of the church

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M235225] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10106747] [accessed 20 January 2024]

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Scene Description: the later [18thC?} composite font in this church

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M235226] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10106752] [accessed 20 January 2024]

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Scene Description: showing the newly found font in the churchyard of the church

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mertes & Bourgeois (1965)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25281FOS

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jacques

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Saint-Jacques 1, Fosse / Fosse-sur-Salm, 4980 Trois-Ponts, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 80 86 22 84

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 3 km S of Trois-Ponts, SE of Liège

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Historical Region: Les Ardennes liégeoises

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: church first mentioned 1131; tower pre-1244; re-built 17thC; re-built again 19th-20thC; damaged 1944 WWII; present church of 1964

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Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Mertes & Bourgeois (1965): a round baptismal font made of arkose was found in the churchyard in 1960 and was restored to the church interior; its measurements were: 79 cm in height; 89 cm exterior diameter; 37 cm cm in depth [NB: depth may mean height of the basin or depth of its interior]; evidence of anchorings present on the basin. Alain Erlande-Brandenburg's L'église de Saint-Jacques à Fosse-sur-Salm [compte-rendu] in the Bulletin Monumental (1966 124-3 pp. 320-321) [https://www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1966_num_124_3_7709] [accessed 20 January 2024] writes about the church but does not mention the baptismal font. A baptismal font of stone in the Eglise Saint-Jacques [Fosse] is listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10106747] [accessed 20 January 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] roman [...] pierre [...] Date: 1001 (incertain) - 1100 (incertain) [...] hauteur: 78 cm, largeur: 67.5 cm, profondeur: 69.5 cm"[NB: is this the same object reported found in the cemetery in Mertes & Bourgeois [cf. supra]? -- the measurements do not appear to match]. Also listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10106752] [accessed 20 January 2024] is a later composite font in this church: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre [...] Date: 1701 (incertain) - 1800 (incertain) [...] Base et couvercle en laiton plus récents."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.349655, 5.859756

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20’ 54’’ N, 5° 51’ 39’ ’E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Notes on Measurements: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Mertens, Jozef, "L'église Saint-Jacques à Fosse-sur-Salm", 85 (1965), 17-50, Archaeologia Belgica -- Extrait du Bulletin de la Société d'A •rt et d'Histoire du Diocèse de Liège, Tome XLV, 1965, pp. 17 à 50, 1965