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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: no cross

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché A092309] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77285] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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head - 4

Scene Description: described differently as lions or anthropomorphic [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché A092309] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77285] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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inscription

Scene Description: all around the upper end of the lower base

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché A092309] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77285] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Martinuskerk in Houthalen"

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2007 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houthalen_-_Sint-Martinuskerk.jpg] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of content in Erik Martens & Partners Architektenburo [dossiernummer: 1605/13/478.0. -- 20/11/2018] [00_Houthalen_St._Martinuskerk_Beheersplan.pdf] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk Sint-Martinus[Houthalen] [...] in kapel onder toren"

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché M238987] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77285] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a 1975 B&W photograph [cliché A092309] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77285] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25303HOU

Church/Chapel: Sint-Martinuskerk van Houthalen

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Pastorijstraat 1, Houthalen, 3530 Houthalen-Helchteren, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N715, in the municipality of Houthalen-Helchteren, N of highway E314, about 14 km N of Hasselt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1560

Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic

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

Church Notes: church first mentioned 1223; re-built 1437; re-built in the 18thC; modified and enlarged in the 20thC

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The entry for this church in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/80558] [accessed 2 February 2024] reports a Gothic object of bluestone from Maasland now used as baptismal font bearing an inscription with the name of Goywart Vyfeyke(n) and the date 1560; it is decorated with four lion heads set at 90-degree angles, and with the Crucifixion scene between them ["Gotisch Maaslands hardstenen, thans als doopvont gebruikt wijwatervat (1560), dat herinnert aan het overlijden van Goywart Vyfeyke(n) in 1560, zie gedateerd herdenkingsopschrift, met vier leeuwekoppen op hoeken en zijde met voorstelling in reliëf van gekruisigde Jezus"]. The entry for this church in the Belgian Wikipedia [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Martinuskerk_(Houthalen)] [accessed 2 February 2024] mentions a stone vessel made of limestone in 1560 in the baptistery, but refers to it as a holy-water stoup, not a baptismal font ["De doopkapel, onder het kruisribgewelf van de toren, bezit een laat-18e eeuw portiekaltaar en een blauw, arduinen wijwatervat uit 1560"]. Noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77285] [accessed 2 February 2024]: "wijwatervat [...] hardsteen [...] inscriptie, gesteenhouwd, midden: Memorie.van.Goywart.Vyfeyke(n) ... Bidt.voir.die.zyle.(1560) [...] hoogte: 101 cm [...] Date: 1560 - 1560". The description of the font heads in the Erik Martens & Partners Architektenburo report [dossiernummer: 1605/13/478.0. -- 20/11/2018] [00_Houthalen_St._Martinuskerk_Beheersplan.pdf] [accessed 2 February 2024] refers to four sculpted anthropomorphic masks [cf. supra] at the corners, and gives the transcription of the inscription on the font ["Centraal in de ruimte staat er een blauw, arduinen wijwatervat (doopvont) daterend van 1560 [...] Op de hoeken komen vier gebeeldhouwde antropomorfe maskers voor, aan de voorzijde een gekruisigde Christus. Het herdenkingsschrift op de sokkel luidt: "MEMORIE VA(N) GOYWART VYFEYKE(N) DIE STERF OP DE XXVIII TEN DACH MEERT A° L X BIDT VOIR DIE ZYLE (1560)"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.031619, 5.371961

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 53.83″ N, 5° 22′ 19.06″ E

UTM: 31U 666317 5656018

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Flemish

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the pedestal base

Inscription Text: "MEMORIE VA(N) GOYWART VYFEYKE(N) DIE STERF OP DE XXVIII TEN DACH MEERT A° L X BIDT VOIR DIE ZYLE (1560)"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: polygonal and flat