Klein Gelmen
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!["The Mosan limestone baptismal font bears the inscription 1622. As in so many “quarta cappelas”, it was originally a sto[u]p, which was promoted to baptismal font when the parish became independent." [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: "The Mosan limestone baptismal font bears the inscription 1622. As in so many “quarta cappelas”, it was originally a sto[u]p, which was promoted to baptismal font when the parish became independent." [cf. FontNotes]
Image Source: digital image from Europeana [Europeana.eu-2058628-KF_objecten_ ... 2865131ed04f7df641ad67bfebde2.png] provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Boodschapkerk in Klein-Gelmen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2007 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klein-Gelmen_-_Onze-Lieve-Vrouw_Boodschapkerk.jpg] [accessed 29 March 2024]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of stoup
Scene Description: ""The Mosan limestone baptismal font bears the inscription 1622. As in so many “quarta cappelas”, it was originally a sto[u]p, which was promoted to baptismal font when the parish became independent." [cf. FontNotes]
Image Source: digital image from Europeana [Europeana.eu-2058628-KF_objecten_ ... 2865131ed04f7df641ad67bfebde2.png] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 25398GEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Boodschapskerk, Klein-Gelmen / Parochiekerk Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Boodschap
Church Patron Saints: The Annunciation to St. Mary
Church Location: Daalstraat 31, Klein Gelmen, 3870 Heers, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N3, in the municipality and 3 km NNW of Heers, about 20 km SSW of Hasselt
Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church
Date: 1622
Century and Period: 17th century(early), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font made of limestone and dated 1622 in this church is listed in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/77182] [accessed 29 March 2024]. Listed also in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/32132] [accessed 29 March 2024]: "Doopvont, hardsteen, gedateerd 1622".
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 16 November 2023) provides informative notes on the development of the church here from a chapel to acquiring patochial functions, and adds: "In 1879 the old chapel was demolished and a new church was built in 1881. This was done according to a design of I. Gérard. The new church was located on the same site but moved slightly more towards the west. The neo-Gothic building is a hall church. The church furniture is neo-Gothic. The Mosan limestone baptismal font bears the inscription 1622. As in so many “quarta cappelas”, it was originally a stoop, which was promoted to baptismal font when the parish became independent." The e-mail contains also a digital image of the re-purposed holy-water stoup [Europeana.eu-2058628-KF_objecten_ ... 2865131ed04f7df641ad67bfebde2.png].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.770811, 5.275439
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 14.92″ N, 5° 16′ 31.58″ E
UTM: 31U 660444 5626807
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low round dome with cross finial; appears modern