Lobbes

Results: 2 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 25949LOB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Eglise Collégiale Saint-Ursmer [ancienne église funneraire de l'abbaye de Lobbes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the former burial church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Ursmarus [aka Ursmar, Ursmer de Lobbes] [b. 644 - d. 713] [bishop of Lobbes] [feast day: 18 April]
Church Notes: monastery founded ca. 645; abbey dissolved 1796; abbey church of St Peter destroyed; former 11thC burial church of Saint Ursmarus survived as a parish church
Church Address: Rue de l'Eglise 1, 6540 Lobbes, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 71 59 51 45
Site Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: The remains of the abbey are located off the N562, W of the N559, 3 km W of Thuin, 14-15 km WSW of Charleroi
Additional Comments: disappeared? / destroyed font? (the one(s) from the medieval abbey church(es) here ***GET PHOTOS FROM https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collégiale_Saint-Ursmer_(Lobbes)_-_Intérieur
Font Notes:
The former funerary (burial) church of St Ursmarus (aka Ursmer) became the parish church; it has a stone font that is listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10068673] [accessed 20 November 2025]: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre calcaire [...] gothique [...] Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur du font baptismal : 119 cm". The font consists of an octagonal basin with a double moulding below the upper rim; on a pedestal base also octagonal and moulded. The above entry includes its brass dome cover: "couvercle de fonts baptismaux [...] laiton [...] hauteur du couvercle : 48 cm". We have no information on the baptismal font(s) of the destroyed medieval abbey church of St Peter.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this site to our attention and for his help documenting it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 589726 5577998
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.347222, 4.261111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 20′ 50″ N, 4° 15′ 40″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 119 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]