Pamel
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25991PAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1700?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century (?), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parochiekerk Sint-Gaugericus, Pamel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Géry (Djèri, Gau, Gaugericus, Gorik, bishop of Cambrai)
Church Notes: present church of 1903 built on a new site replaced an earlier church originally dated to 1179 but enlarged in the mid-19thC; when its tower collapsed in 1879 the whole building was demolished and the new one was built on the new ssite where it now stands
Church Address: Brusselstraat 14, 1760 Roosdaal, Belgium
Site Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N8 and E of the N28, in the municipality of Roosdal, 7 km ENE of Ninove, about 20 km W of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Aartsbisdom Mechelen-Brussel / Archidiocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here) ***GET FONT PICTURE FROM KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/655]***
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font and its cover listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/655] [accessed 29 November 2025]: "doopvont [...] marmer, kopper [...] Date: 1600 (onzeker) - 1699 (onzeker) [font only]; Date: 1800 (onzeker) - 1899 (onzeker) [cover only] [...] hoogte: 92 cm".
A comunication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 28 November 2025) notes that almost identical baptismal fonts stand in the village churches of Aspelare, Elene, Meerbeke, Sint-Antelinks, Borchtlombeek, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove and Pamel, all of them in the same area. There must have been a local workshop at that time.
A comunication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 28 November 2025) notes that almost identical baptismal fonts stand in the village churches of Aspelare, Elene, Meerbeke, Sint-Antelinks, Borchtlombeek, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove and Pamel, all of them in the same area. There must have been a local workshop at that time.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 575715 5632991
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.843661, 4.075431
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 37.18″ N, 4° 4′ 31.55″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial
REFERENCES
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.