Zepperen

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Jean-Claude Ghislain

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 April 2024)

view of base - lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Jean-Claude Ghislain

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 April 2024)

view of base - lower base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jean-Claude Ghislain visited the [Zepperen] site in 2007, and measured the base.

Image Source: digital image of a 6 July 2007 drawing by Jean-Claude Ghislain

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 April 2024)

view of base in context

Scene Description: the old font base seen here as base of the COVID victims' monument at its inauguration

Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2021 by Jos Lacroix in Het Belang van Limburg [https://www.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20211004_95647008] [accessed 19 May 2024]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St-Truiden Zepperen KH"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 June 2014 by Joeri Mertens https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Truiden_Zepperen_KH_(1)_-_312196_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zepperen, near Sint-Truiden, Belgium. Interior of Sint-Genovevakerk towards the East."

Image Source: digital photograph 12 July 2013 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zepperen,_StGenovevakerk,_interieur01.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zepperen, near Sint-Truiden, Belgium. Interior of Sint-Genovevakerk towards the West."

Image Source: digital photograph 12 July 2013 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zepperen,_StGenovevakerk,_interieur02.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2024]

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view of church interior - transept - south transept - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zepperen, near Sint-Truiden, Belgium. View of late-Gothic fresco of the Last Judgement (1509) in the South transept of Sint-Genovevakerk."

Image Source: digital photograph 12 July 2013 by Kleon3 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zepperen,_StGenovevakerk,_interieur03.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2024]

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view of font - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jean-Claude Ghislain visited the [Zepperen] site in 2007, and measured the base. He also made some sketches about the probable design of the font. Therefore, he referred to the baptismal fonts of Flône and of Vliermaal.

Image Source: digital image of a 6 July 2007 drawing by Jean-Claude Ghislain

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 April 2024)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zepperen Kerk Sint-Genoveva [...] doopvont [...] neogotiek [...] Date: 1901 - 1910" -- the modern font in use

Image Source: digital image of a 1974 B&W photograph [cliché M090349] by Foto Skopeo/KIK [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/79972] [accessed 19 May 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25506ZEP

Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint Genoveva in Zepperen

Church Patron Saints: St. Genevieve [aka Genofeva, Genoveva]

Church Location: Sint-Genovevaplein 8, 3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 11 68 23 37

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N759, in the municipality and 3-4 km E of Sint-Truiden

Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Hasselt / Diocèse de Hasselt

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jean-Claude Ghislain for his photograph and drawings of this font fragment, and to Pol Herman for bringing this object to out attention and for his help in documenting it.

Church Notes: place of worship [oratorium?] dedicated to St Genevieve of Paris here by 650; present tower 12thC; present church 15thC; interior mural paintings; church renovated 1860-1910 16thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for Zeppren in Beheersplan voor de pastorij van Zepperen (25 January 2018) [180124-BP-pastorij-zepperen.pdf] [accessed 19 May 2024) informs of a strange stone dug up while clearing shrubs in the vicarage garden; the object turned out to be the base of a late-Romanesque lower base made of Meuse limestone ["De steen bleek een gesculpteerde voet te zijn van een laat romaanse doopvont in maaskalksteen"]; the article makes a case for reserving these objects to the church, even when they are located in ancillary buildings as in this case ["Ook deze beschouwen wij als niet behorend tot de pastorij, maar wel tot de kerk."] The 13 February 2024 edition of the Zepperen Kroniek [https://zepperen.be/kroniek/] [accessed 19 May 2024] reports a strange stone font dug up in 2005(?) in the parsonage/vicarage garden at Zepperen; it turned out to be the lower base of a late-Romanesque Maas limestone baptismal font ["Een rare steen in de voortuin van de pastorie blijkt de gesculpteerde voet te zijn van een laatromaanse doopvont in maaskalksteen"]. The same source [cf. supra] reports that the stone found in the vicarage and identified as a font lower base was re-purposed as the base for a monument dedicated to the victims of COVID ["Begin oktober inhuldiging Troosthoekje van FERM, na mis voor overledenen. Met beeld van wereldbol met uit- en opklimmende mensjes in het bebloemde Troosthoekje van FERM in de voortuin van de pastorie (°2005). Keramiek door Marijke Schoenaerts Zepperen, metalen sokkel door HLT, voet is restant oude, laatromaanse doopvont in Naamse steen. Het troosthoekje verwijst naar de Covid-overledenen en de veerkracht om de maatschappij en de wereld terug op te starten". The information above is accompanied by photographs of the monument in the 4 October 2021 article 'Voortuin van de pastorie is troostplek' by Jos Lacroix in Het Belang van Limburg [https://www.hbvl.be/cnt/dmf20211004_95647008] [accessed 19 May 2024]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 April 2024) informs: "A remarkable stone was discovered in the front garden of the parsonage in 2007 while clearing shrubs. The stone, buried in the ground, turned out to be a sculpted base of a late Romanesque baptismal font in Mosan limestone. Nothing else is known about this font. It is not in KIK-IRPA. Jean-Claude Ghislain visited the site in 2007, and measured the base. He also made some sketches about the probable design of the font. Therefore, he referred to the baptismal fonts of Flône and of Vliermaal. Today, the object is used as the base for a monument to the resilience of life after the covid pandemic (called a place of consolation)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.822203, 5.247469

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 19.93″ N, 5° 14′ 50.89″ E

UTM: 31U 658298 5632461

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone