Fleron / Fléron

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

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Image Source: digital image of a 1956 B&W photograph [cliché B162161] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119147] [accessed 14 April 2024]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: pf which only two remain [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024

Image Source: digital image of a 1956 B&W photograph [cliché B162161] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119147] [accessed 14 April 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Denis à Fléron / Sint-Dionysiuskerk in Fléron" -- the present church, re-built mid-19thC

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 30 January 2011 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fléron_-_Eglise_Saint-Denis.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 14 April 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25432FLE
Museum and Inventory Number: Liège, Galerie lapidaire du Palais, 2ème cour
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Denis à Fléron / Sint-Dionysiuskerk in Fléron
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: rue du Bac 2, 4620 Fléron, Belgium -- Tel. : 04 358 30 21
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N3
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: Pays de Herve
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic
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: baptism of Julienne de Cornillon in this ancient Romanesque oratory documented in 1192; present church consecrated 1850 [source https://www.upfleron.be/localisation-histoire/paroisse-saint-denis-a-fleron/historique-de-la-paroisse-saint-denis.html [accessed 14 April 2024]
Noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119147] [accessed 14 April 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] gothique [...] Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 101 cm". The font cover is also listed [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10119145] [accessed 14 April 2024]: "ouvercle de fonts baptismaux [...] laiton [...] hauteur approximative: 32 cm [...] Date: 1701 - 1800"; the entry gives the location of the fragment as "Galerie lapidaire du Palais, 2ème cour", but gives no provenance. Père Pierre Guérin SJ, président de l'association royale Cercle Historique de Fléron [https://www.upfleron.be/localisation-histoire/paroisse-saint-denis-a-fleron/historique-de-la-paroisse-saint-denis.html] [accessed 14 April 2024] reports the origins of the parish church in Fléron: "il semblerait qu'elle a été construite, du moins la tour, la grande nef et le chœur, à l'époque romane (début XIe-mi XIIe siècle)", a Romanesque church with baptismal rights that replaced an earlier oratory: "Elle remplace l'ancien oratoire roman dans lequel Julienne de Cornillon fut baptisée en 1192"; Guérin further notes that, after many modifications through the centuries, the church was re-built in the mid-19th century, at which time, in 1846, the baptismal font was removed from the church and sent to Liège: "Les fonts baptismaux romans eux aussi ont été transférés en 1846 dans la cour du palais de Justice de Liège. Pourquoi ? on ne sait." A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 January 2024) provides much of the information and references noted above, including the source that provides the actual provenance of the font, found in the Catalogue descriptif du Musée provincial de Liège, Bulletin, IAL, 1864, n° 27, where it notes: "Fonds [sic] baptismaux provenant de l'église de Fléron. Donnés par M. Marchot. Ils appartiennent au style roman ; le réservoir de forme hémisphérique est orné de quatre têtes humaines"; Pol Herman questions the early date given to the removed font by Guérin: "Je comprend pourquoi le père Guérin appellerait ces fonts « romans ». Mais l’apparition générale de la cuve, sa forme octogonale, les moulures, les têtes,… indiquent clairement qu’il s’agit d’un objet de la deuxième moitié du 16ième siècle (peut-être même début 17ième).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 37.317 N, 5° 40.991 E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2024-04-14 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.