Gooik / Goyck

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kerk Sint-Niklaas[Gooik]"

Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W photograph [cliché A070162] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/310] [accessed 12 September 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church in the centre of Gooik"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 March 2009 by David Edgar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GooikChurch5044.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2024]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by De Weerdt (1927)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W photograph [cliché B074772] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/381] [accessed 12 September 2024]

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Scene Description: "drawing of the 'roepsteen' lying at the cemetery wall, near the entrance of the church. The so-called ‘roepsteen’ is a stone from which the official announcements were made by the village 'crier' in earlier times. De Weerdt writes that the stone was the base of an older baptismal font. No mention of this stone since 1927, it has disappeared and it is not known what happened to it" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by De Weerdt (1927)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 25693GOO

Church/Chapel: Rooms-katholiek Sint-Niklaaskerk te Gooik

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Torenstraat 2-8, 1755 Gooik, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N285, about 20 km WSW of Brussels

Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 18th century [basin only] -- 16th century[base only], Baroque [composite font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: 11th-12thC church; tower added 12thC; modified 17th, 18th and 19thC; restored 2023

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the 16th century listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/381] [accessed 12 September 2024]: "doopvont [...] Date: 1500 (onzeker) - 1599 (onzeker) [,,,] arduin, koper [...] hoogte: 101 cm". Domed font cover of brass, round, with several moulded levels and finial. A communication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 30 August 2024) notes: "Gooik was the site of a Roman vicus and was already mentioned in the ninth century as a possession of the Saint Gertrude Abbey in Nivelles. The foundations of the church building date back to the 11/12th century. The present baptismal font is composite. The Hainaut-type limestone base in gothic style is probably the oldest part, possibly 16th century. The limestone basin is 18thC. However, in his article "Goyck en zijn kerk", in Eigen Schoon en De Brabander, n° 10, 1927-1928, p. 31-32, J. De Weerdt has publised a drawing of the 'roepsteen' lying at the cemetery wall, near the entrance of the church. The so-called ‘roepsteen’ is a stone from which the official announcements were made by the village 'crier' in earlier times. De Weerdt writes that the stone was the base of an older baptismal font. No mention of this stone since 1927, it has disappeared and it is not known what happened to it. I was unable to find a copy of the above mentioned article." A further communication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 September 2024) adds: "Some days ago, I received a copy of the article that contains sketches of the font and of the “roepsteen”. I have the impression that the “roepsteen” is not a baptismal font base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.795081, 4.118047

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 42.29″ N, 4° 7′ 4.97″ E

UTM: 31U 578797 5627633

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Trapezoidal Basin: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

De Weerdt, Jan, "Goyck en zijn Kerk", X Jaargang, n. 2-3 April-Mei 1927, Eigehschoon en de Brabander, 1927, pp. 32; r["References"]