Guvelingen / Govelingehen
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 26010GUV
Object Type: Stoup
Object Details: capital
Font Date: n.d.
Church / Chapel Name: Heilig-Kruiskerk / Eglise Sainte-Croix de Guvelingen / Guvelingenkapel / Guvelingenkerk
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): Holy Cross
Previous Font Location(s): provenance: Abdij Sint-Trudo[Sint-Truiden]
Church Notes: parish first mentioned 1169; Romanesque cruciform basilica church dated 12thC; documented in a papal document of Innocent III; present church 1769 re-building; deconsecrated 2005
Church Address: Guvelingen 33, 3800 Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Site Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N716, in the municipality and N outskirts of Sint-Truiden, about 20 km SW of Hasselt
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Hasselt
Additional Comments: re-purposed capital ***GET KIK-IRPA IMAGE***-- disappeared font? (from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Dutch Wikipedia [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilig-Kruiskerk_(Guvelingen)] [accessed 5 December 2025] mentions a partially Romanesque holy-water stoup originally from the Abbey of Sint-Truiden: "een deels Romaans wijwatervat, afkomstig van de Abdij van Sint-Truiden". This is the wall-mounted stoup listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/79167] [accessed 5 December 2025] as a former 12thC capital from the Sint-Truiden Abbey re-purposed as holy-water stoup: "kapiteel (gebruikt als wijwatervat) [...] Provenance: Abdij Sint-Trudo[Sint-Truiden] [...] steen [...] Romans [...] Date: 1101 (onzeker) - 1200 (onzeker)". Noted in the Onroerend Erfgoed entry for this church: "Wijwatervat in romaans kapiteel, afkomstig van de abdijkerk van Sint-Truiden."
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 4 December 2025) provides historical background on this church and sources for the provenance of the 12th-century holy-water stoup, and adds: "Baptism registers exist from 1627 onwards. No trace of the baptismal font."
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 4 December 2025) provides historical background on this church and sources for the provenance of the 12th-century holy-water stoup, and adds: "Baptism registers exist from 1627 onwards. No trace of the baptismal font."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this stoup to our attention anf for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 654013 5633077
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.828892, 5.186944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 44.01″ N, 5° 11′ 13″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: capital-shaped
REFERENCES
- KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.