Diest No. 2
Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 June 2024)
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: 'Diest Sint Sulptius Chor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2016 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diest_Sint_Sulptius_Chor_2.jpg] [accessed 8 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - southwest vuew
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Sulpitius en Dionysiuskerk (Diest)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris06, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diest_Sulpitius_en_Dionysiuskerk_(01).jpg] [accessed 8 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Schip van de Sint-Sulpitiuskerk te Diest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2011 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Sulpitiuskerk_schip.jpg] [accessed 8 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the ca.1900 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1942 B&W photograph [cliché A029188] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12495] [accessed 8 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the ca.1900 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2023 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 June 2024)
INFORMATION
FontID: 25542DIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Sulpitius, Diest [aka Sint-Sulpitius en Dionysiuskerk]
Church Patron Saints: St. Sulpicius [aka Sulpitius]
Church Location: Grote Markt, 3290 Diest, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off the R26 [aka Omer Vanaudenhovelaan], about 20 km WNW of Hasselt
Date: 1427
Century and Period: 15th century (early), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his photograph of the modern font and for his help indocumenting this site
Church Notes: church built 1321-1534
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is modern, listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12495] [accessed 8 June 2024]
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 5 June 2024) informs: "The “Messager des Sciences” of the year 1856 contains an article “Notice historique sur l’église primaire de Saint-Sulpice à Diest” by the priest F.J. Raymaekers; on page 59, he mentions that local craftsmen casted a new bronze baptismal font; the lifting device for the lid was made in forged iron, probably by Jean Zeghers." The Notice historique [cf. supra] further notes that the foundry received payment for the font "la somme de 70 couronnes, outre une robe de drap, dont le prix s'élevait à 7 gripen". Everything is lost during the 16th-century unsettled times, the church being badly damaged, especially in 1580.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.984889, 5.051069
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 5.6″ N, 5° 3′ 3.85″ E
UTM: 31U 643963 5650147
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: yes [cf. FontNotes]