Ronchinne / Maillen
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Domaine de Ronchinne, 2025
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Domaine de Ronchinne - Château et Ecuries [https://www.booking.com/hotel/be/chateau-de-la-poste.fr.html] [accessed 10 January 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Maillen (Ortsteil der Gemeinde Assesse, Prov. Namur, Belgien): Domaine de Ronchinne, Anfang des 20. Jh.s, ehemalige Wohnung der Prinzessin Clémentine, Tochter des belgischen Königs Leopold II." -- now a hotel
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2010 by Friedrich Tellberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaillenDomaineDeRonchinne.JPG] [accessed 10 January 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Maille. Château de la Poste, cuve de fonts baptismaux circulaire avec 4 têtes"
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Image Source: digital image of a 1989 B&W photograph [cliché M268820] by Jacques Declercq, in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10066785] [accessed 12 January 2025]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Domaine de Ronchinne, 2025
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Domaine de Ronchinne - Château et Ecuries [https://www.booking.com/hotel/be/chateau-de-la-poste.fr.html] [accessed 10 January 2025]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Domaine de Ronchinne, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph in Domaine de Ronchinne - Château et Ecuries [https://www.booking.com/hotel/be/chateau-de-la-poste.fr.html] [accessed 10 January 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25779RON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Domaine de Ronchinne / Château de Ronchinne [aka Château de la Poste] [later a hotel]
Church Location: Assesse, Namur, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N92, W of the E411, N of the Crupet valley, between Ivoy, Mont and Crupet itself, in the municiplaity of Assesse, 14-15 km S of Namur
Font Location in Church: in a private property "privé / fermé au public"
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 14th century (?) [basin only], Gothic [basin only]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman and Jean-Claude Ghislain for sharing their information on this item with BSI
Church Notes: the present building at Ronchinne originated in a medieval 'donjon' much modified in the 16th, 17th, 19th and 20thC
Font Notes:
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Nathalie de Harlez' and the Institut du Patrimoine wallon's Inventaire des parcs et jardins de Belgique – Wallonie, Province de Namur, Parc du Domaine de Ronchinne [https://europeangardens.eu/inventories/bew/BEIEJP_Wallonie_Namur.xml/ead/BEIEJPW_Namur_J13.pdf] [accessed 10 January 2025] report that this Ronchinne site was acquired and occupied since June 1912 by prince Victor Napoléon and was occupied since June 1912, his wife princess Clémentine of Belgium, daughter of king Léopold II, and their daughter Marie-Clotilde, who introduced the decorative and architectural changes. The same source reports a baptismal font made of limestone, its round basin decorated with human faces is reported in the porch of this 'domaine': "Dans le porche, fonts baptismaux (rapportés) en pierre calcaire, dont la cuve circulaire est sculptée de visages humains". A later source, 30 December 2009 edition of L'Avenir [https://www.lavenir.net/archives-journal/2009/12/30/transformes-en-jardiniere-DINRFXVXCBHOXG5QQEZV7GTPFM/] [accessed 10 January 2025] mentions a source, Jacques Toussaint, reporting that several fonts collected by the Napoleons in the Ronchinne site had been recently 'dispersés' to antiquaries: "citant encore l'exemple récent du château de Ronchinne, où plusieurs fonts baptismaux, collectionnés par le mari de la Princesse Napoléon, ont été il y a peu dispersés chez des antiquaires". The above font in question is described in another source [https://www.assesse.be/fr/loisirs/tourisme/office-du-tourisme/patrimoine-et-curiosites/maillen] [accessed 10 January 2025] as "fonts baptismaux romans", i.e., a Romanesque baptismal font [NB: the term "les fonts baptismaux", plural in French, to designate equally one or more baptismal fonts, may turn ambiguous in a phrase]. The font is listed and illustrated in KIK-IRPA [tps://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10066785] [accessed 12 January 2025]: "cuve de fonts baptismaux circulaire avec 4 têtes [...] pierre taillé, sculpté [...] Date: 1301 (incertain) - 1400 (incertain) [...] Pays mosan. Dimensions: hauteur: 35 cm; diamètre: 94 cm [...] base non originale".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.35497, 4.92934
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 21′ 17.89″ N, 4° 55′ 45.62″ E
UTM: 31U 637245 5579879
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 94 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 35 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA
REFERENCES
KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2025-01-12 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.