Flemalle-Grande / Flémalle-Grande

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four

Image Source: digital image of a 1972 B&W photograph [cliché M083851] by Charles Mahaux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10098668] [accessed 30 March 2024]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Jean Baptiste / Sint-Jan-de-Doperkerk in Flémalle-Grande, Flémalle" -- a 1882 re-building of an earlier church on a nearby site

Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2011 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flémalle-Grande_-_Eglise_Saint-Jean_Baptiste.jpg]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the baptismal font, covered in bird excrement and debris, inside the disused and abandoned church in November 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2014 by in Photographic Exploration [https://www.g2photo.eu/blue-christ-church.html] [accessed 30 March 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: in 1906

Image Source: digital image of a 1906 B&W photograph [cliché B010867] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10098668] [accessed 30 March 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: in 1972

Image Source: digital image of a 1972 B&W photograph [cliché M083850] by Charles Mahaux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10098668] [accessed 30 March 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the baptismal font inside the disused and abandoned church in November 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 11 November 2014 by in Photographic Exploration [https://www.g2photo.eu/blue-christ-church.html] [accessed 30 March 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25404FLE

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Flémalle-Grande

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Rue de l'Eglise 15, 4400 Flémalle, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N617, on the W bank of the Meuse river, W of the N90, 7-8 km WSW of Liège town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic

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: original church partly Romanesque was dedicated to St. Mary, later to St. John the Baptist; demolished; present church built on a nearby site 1882

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Baptismal font of the 16th century listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10098668] [accessed 30 March 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre [...] gothique Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 104 cm [...] Cfr. couvercle de fonts baptismaux n°10098669". A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 24 November 2023) informs of the deplorable state of this now, disused, dilapidated, littered with dead birds, excrement, etc.; the present state of this church and font are documented in Photographic Exploration: Urbex - Religieus - Blue Christ Church (11-11-2014) [https://www.g2photo.eu/blue-christ-church.html] [accessed 30 March 2024]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.605528, 5.482278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 36' 19.9" N, 5° 28' 56.2" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round dome with orb-and-cross finial

REFERENCES

KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2024-03-30 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.