Kaulille No. 1

Image and permission received from the author, received via Pol Heman (e-mail of 4 July 2024)

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kaulille, kerk"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2007 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaulille,_kerk_foto2_2007-07-15_15.19.JPG] [accessed 14 August 2024]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk Kaulille" -- church chiefly 20thC; only the lower part of the tower may remain from the medieval church here [cf. VhurchNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2011 by Fred Lambert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kaulille,_kerk.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: "There was no support of the baptismal font, because the basin was bricked into the wall. Mia [...] sent me a wedding picture of her standing next to the baptismal font used as a flower pot."

Image Source: edited detail of an old photograph [author N/A] [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the owner, received via Pol Heman (e-mail of 4 July 2024)

view of font - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: "There was no support of the baptismal font, because the basin was bricked into the wall. Mia made a small sketch" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing by Mia Croonen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author, received via Pol Heman (e-mail of 4 July 2024)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "For comparison, here is a photo of the similar baptismal font in the church of Jette (Belgium), which dates from 1597. Such date would correspond to the time of construction of the Gothic church at Kaulille." [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2011 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 25654KAU

Church/Chapel: Sint-Monulphus en Gondulphuskerk, Kaulille

Church Patron Saints: St. Monulph & St. Gondulph

Church Location: Kaulille Kerk, Kaulillerdorp 44, 3950 Bocholt, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 11 44 52 17

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N747, W of the N76, in the municipality and 5 km WNW of Bocholt, about 25 km S of Eindhoven

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hasselt

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman and to Mia Croonen for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: 12th-13thC Romanesque church re-built 15th-16thC; restored late-17thC, mid-late 18thC; church demolished, but for the tower in 1930; new church built against the old tower

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A communication to BSi from Pol Herman (e-mail of 4 July 2024) informs of the sad history of the medieval font here: "I unexpectedly came across the “old” baptismal font of Kaulille. The Facebook page “You are from Kaulille if you remember that in the past…” talks about the now disappeared Lourdes Grotto near the church. In this document, Mia Croonen writes: “To the left behind the Lourdes Grotto there was a shed, at the end of the 1960s, that contained the old baptismal font from the old church and old church furniture.” I started digging further, and I got the following answer from Kaulille: when the old church was demolished, the baptismal font was indeed moved to a shed near the grotto behind the church. When this building was cleared away, the baptismal font came into the possession of Mia Croonen's father. There was no support of the baptismal font, because the basin was bricked into the wall. Mia made a small sketch [cf. ImagesArea]. She also sent me a wedding picture of her standing next to the baptismal font used as a flower pot. I send you a detail of this photo [cf. ImagesArea] During the inheritance division, this baptismal font was sold to Mr. Penders, an antiques dealer from Ophoven. But he has passed away long time ago. For comparison, you will find a similar baptismal font in the church of Jette (Belgium), which dates from 1597. Such date would correspond to the time of construction of the Gothic church at Kaulille." [NB: we have no knowledge of the present whereabouts of this font; the former owner's photograpj shows a vessel more likely to be late-medieval, therefore not the original font of the Romanesque church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.188333, 5.518056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 18″ N, 5° 31′ 5″ E

UTM: 31U 675963 5673782

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round