Attre / Ate-dilé-Brujlete
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [cliché M071418] by Brigitte Ugeux in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10010745] [accessed 5 March 2024]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [cliché M071418] by Brigitte Ugeux in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10010745] [accessed 5 March 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [cliché M071410] by Brigitte Ugeux in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10010727] [accessed 5 March 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: down the sides of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [cliché M071418] by Brigitte Ugeux in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10010745] [accessed 5 March 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25372ATT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Rue de l'Obélisque 15 7941 Attre, Brugelette, Belgium
Site Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N56, in the municipality and 2 km W of Brugelette, 5-6 km SE of Ath, 50-60 km WSW of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournai
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10010745] [accessed 5 March 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] lierre calcaire [...] Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 122 cm".
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 October 2023) on the font at Flensburg Sankt-Johanniskirche, he notes: "The font of Attre, église Saint-Martin, seems almost identical" [i.e., in general shape, without the inscriptions and the added statues of the base] [cf. BSI entry for Flensburg No. 6]
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 October 2023) on the font at Flensburg Sankt-Johanniskirche, he notes: "The font of Attre, église Saint-Martin, seems almost identical" [i.e., in general shape, without the inscriptions and the added statues of the base] [cf. BSI entry for Flensburg No. 6]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.6074, 3.8395
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 122 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with cross finial
REFERENCES
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.