Lobbes
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: "Lobbes (België): interieur van de Sint-Ursmaruskerk - doopvont / Lobbes (Belgique) : vue intérieure de la collégiale Saint-Ursmer - fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Ryckaert, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 21 June 2019 by Marc Ryckaert
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: "Collégiale Saint-Ursmer (Lobbes) - Intérieur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam. 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 23 February 2018 by Chatsam
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2026
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A052386] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NA
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: "Lobbes; Collégiale Saint-Ursmer; Hainaut; Belgium; Vue extérieure du nord-ouest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2011
Image Source: igital photograph 27 June 2011 by PMRMaeyaert
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2026
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A052386] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NA
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: all the way down to the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2026
Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A052386] by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NA
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25949LOB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic
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 Wikidata: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collégiale_Saint-Ursmer_de_Lobbes
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
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournai / Bisdom Doornik
Additional Comments: disappeared? / destroyed font? (the one(s) from the medieval abbey church(es) here
Town/City Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbes
Font Notes:
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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".
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 17 November 202) informs: "The early history of Lobbes Abbey is known in relative detail through the fortunate and unusual survival of its annals. The monastery was founded by Saint Landelin around 645. In 1794, the last abbot, Vulgise de Vignron, and 43 monks were expelled from the monastery by French revolutionary troops. Under the law of 2 September 1796 the abbey was dissolved. Most of the monastic buildings, including the abbey church of Saint Peter, were destroyed. The books and documents were burned.
We have no information on the baptismal font(s) of the destroyed medieval abbey church of St Peter."
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 17 November 202) informs: "The early history of Lobbes Abbey is known in relative detail through the fortunate and unusual survival of its annals. The monastery was founded by Saint Landelin around 645. In 1794, the last abbot, Vulgise de Vignron, and 43 monks were expelled from the monastery by French revolutionary troops. Under the law of 2 September 1796 the abbey was dissolved. Most of the monastic buildings, including the abbey church of Saint Peter, were destroyed. The books and documents were burned.
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]
REFERENCES
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.