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Scene Description: originally a holy-water stoup [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph [cliché A089984] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024]
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inscription
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240408011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph [cliché A089985] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024]
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human figure - female - head - Negroid features
![one of four heads; another of the four broken/unfinished [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240408010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one of four heads; another of the four broken/unfinished [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph [cliché A089986] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph [cliché A089984] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph [cliché A089984] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024]
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design element - motifs - stop - 4
Scene Description: turning the lower part of the pedestal square
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1945 B&W photograph [cliché A089984] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25415BER
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1565
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Parochiekerk Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Geboorte, Berbroek
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Address: Grotestraat 78-82, Berbroek, 3540 Herk-de-Stad, Belgium
Site Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N2, in the municipality and 3 km E of Herk-de-Stad, 12 km W of Hasselt
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Hasselt
Additional Comments: re-purposed stoup (later used as baptismal font)
Font Notes:
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Listed in the Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/88624] [accessed 8 April 2024] as a late-Gothic baptismal font made of limestone in 1565. Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/27642] [accessed 8 April 2024] as a former holy-water stoup later used as baptismal font. The KIK-IRPA entry above gives reference to C. Ceulemans en R. Didier, Inventaris van de gotische figuratieve beeldsnijkunst uit de periode 1380-1550, bewaard in Belgisch Limburg, (Sint-Truiden, 1990), nr. 260.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 655109 5646650
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.950572, 5.208261
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 2.06″ N, 5° 12′ 29.74″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: carved on the upper surface of the basin rim
Inscription Text: "1565"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.