Ombret / Ombret-Rawsa / Ombret-Rausa
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human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M008546] by Chalrles Mahaux in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119547] [accessed 13 April 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
![Source caption: "Vue de l'ancienne église Notre-Dame à Ombret, sur la rive droite de la Meuse (commune de Amay, province de Liège en Belgique)." -- at the time it was scheduled to be replaced by a block of apartments but the project was abandoned [cf. ChurchNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240413002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'ancienne église Notre-Dame à Ombret, sur la rive droite de la Meuse (commune de Amay, province de Liège en Belgique)." -- at the time it was scheduled to be replaced by a block of apartments but the project was abandoned [cf. ChurchNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean Housen, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 July 2017 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170715_001_ombret.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Vue de l'ancienne église Notre-Dame à Ombret, sur la rive droite de la Meuse (commune de Amay, province de Liège en Belgique)." -- at the time it was scheduled to be replaced by a block of apartments but the project was abandoned [cf. ChurchNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240413003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'ancienne église Notre-Dame à Ombret, sur la rive droite de la Meuse (commune de Amay, province de Liège en Belgique)." -- at the time it was scheduled to be replaced by a block of apartments but the project was abandoned [cf. ChurchNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean Housen, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 July 2017 by Jean Housen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20170715_018_ombret.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: is it 16thC late-Gothic, as claimed in KIK-IRPA, or a later font in the well-established style? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M008546] by Chalrles Mahaux in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119547] [accessed 13 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25429OMB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame d'Ombret [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Ombret, 4540 Amay, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N90, pm the S bank of the Meuse river, in the municipality and 1 km SE of Amay, 18-20 km WSW of Liège
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century/ 18th - 19th century, Late Gothic? / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 1712 chapel-of-ease to Amay; re-built as parish church 1871; bought by contractor to turn it into apartments; project abandoned; damaged by tornado in 2013;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119547] [accessed 13 April 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] gothique [...] hauteur approximative 113 cm [...] Date: 1501 - 1600"; the brass cover is also listed [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119548] [accessed 13 April 2024].
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 6 January 2024) notes: "The whereabouts of this font are unknown. The church has been largely demolished. Ombret had no church at all before 1722 (KIK-IRPA says : "la chapelle d'Ombret avait été bénie le 28 octobre 1712") It is therefore bizarre that its baptismal font dates from the 16th century. Or could it be true that Jean-Claude Ghislain is right : "the older styles of fonts were copied over and over again (as the modelling tools still existed), gothic-looking Mosan fonts were manufactured up into the 19th century? The KIK-IRPA dating of well-preserved fonts must be questioned, many fonts attributed to the 16/17th century are much younger?""
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.533000, 5.330000
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31' 58.8" N, 5° 19' 48.0" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2024-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.
KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2024-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.