Ny / Ny-La Baraque / Ny nr. Hotton
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human figure - head
![wall-mounted oin the exterior wall of a private residence, Rue du Doyet 3, Ny, about 100 m. from the parish church [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: wall-mounted oin the exterior wall of a private residence, Rue du Doyet 3, Ny, about 100 m. from the parish church [cf. FontNotes]
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2021 [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ny (Belgique), l'église Notre-Dame (restaurée en 1855 - tour carrée du XVIIe siècle)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 25 January 2006 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Ny_-_Eglise_Notre-Dame_(2).jpg] [accessed 16 February 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern baptismal font inside the parish church at Ny
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 25336NYY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Ny
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: [NB: the head is now wall mounted on Rue du Doyet 3, Ny, 6990 Hotton, Belgium, 100 m. from the church]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Ny is located between the N86 (W) and the N807 (E), in the municipality and 3 km NE of Hotton, about 60 km ESE of Namur
Font Location in Church: [not in a church; wall-mounted on rue du Douyet, 3, Ny, Hotton]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font fragment to our attention, and to him and Jean-Claude Ghislain for their help in documenting it
Church Notes: 17thC tower; church re-built 1855
Font Notes:
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An entry for this church in Waymarking [https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm110V7_Eglise_Notre_Dame_de_lAssomption_Ny_Lux_Belgium] [accessed 16 February 2024] mentions a re-cycled human head built into the south wall ["Remploi à la base du mur sud d’un culot grossier à tête humaine, daté de 1557"].
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 October 2023) informs: "Above the door of a house along the rue du Douyet at Ny (Belgium), a head of a Romanesque baptismal font is inserted into the outer wall. It is said to be 12th century"; he quotes Genicot (1979) as source, and includes a note to him by J-C. Ghislain (e-mail of 23 July 2021: "La tête d'une cuve dont vous m'envoyez la photo et la citation dans une notice dont la référence précise m'intéresse, se trouve actuellement rue du Douyet, 3 à Ny, commune de Hotton. Je présume qu'elle provient d'une cuve artisanale encore romane, mais vraisemblablement déjà du 13e siècle." And P-H adds: "As you can read, Jean-Claude Ghislain thinks it is 13th century. The church Notre-Dame de l’Assomption of Ny is within 100 meters of this house [...] present modern Mosan-type font in the church [...] The church Notre-Dame de l’Assomption of Ny is within 100 meters of this house."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.2855, 5.48093
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 17′ 6″ N, 5° 28′ 47″ E
UTM: 31U 676713 5573275
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: fragment
REFERENCES
Genicot, Luc-Francis, Le Patrimoine Monumental de la Belgique, Volume 7, Wallonie : province du Luxembourg, arrondissement de Marche-en-Famenne, Solédi-Liège: Ministère de la Culture Française, Pierre Mardaga Editeur, 1979