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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand

Scene Description: over arches 1-2

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B02: Christ - Agnus Dei

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 13)

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B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Longinus - Stephaton

Scene Description: over arches 9, 10 and 11

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B04: Christ - Christ in Majesty - on a rainbow

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew

Scene Description: in arch 3

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 13)

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B06: Apostle or saint - St. Germanus

Scene Description: in arch 4

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 13)

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B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul

Scene Description: on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B08: Christ - Christ triumphant over Satan

Scene Description: His feet crushing two reptiles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B09: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys and book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B10: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

Scene Description: in arch 12

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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B11: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - bull - with book

Scene Description: in arch 12

B12: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle

Scene Description: in arch 14

B13: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion

Scene Description: in arch 14

B14: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 14 - columns with capitals and bases - torsade columns

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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BU01: design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: incised

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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BU02: inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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BU03: design element - motifs - spike

Scene Description: a row of, all around

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LB01: human figure - male - riding lion

Scene Description: on the metal part of the base; the lion bodies are only the front halves; back-to-back against the central pillar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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LB02: human figure - female - riding on lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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LB03: animal - mammal - lion - couchant - 6

Scene Description: Demi-lions (only the front part of the bodies; in metal; each on the rectangular protrusions of the stone lower base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 13)

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LB04: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 6

Scene Description: one on each side of the stone lower base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 13)

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information

Scene Description: p. 140 of Schayes (1839) containing his transcription of the date in the inscription -- all three transcriptions cited in BSI vary slightly [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Schaye (1839, p. 139)

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view of base

Image Source: B&W reproduction in Colman & Colman (2002) of a photograph from IRPA-KIK, Bruxelles

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Schayes (1839: brtween pp. 138-139)

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Schayes (1839: brtween pp. 138-139)

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view of basin

Image Source: B&W reproduction in Colman & Colman (2002) of a photograph from IRPA-KIK, Bruxelles

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: another of the sides of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: photograph in De Inventaris van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/dibe/relict/42838/beelden] [accessed 10 March 2015]

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view of church interior - transept

Scene Description: looking across to the south arm

Image Source: photograph in De Inventaris van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/dibe/relict/42838/beelden] [accessed 10 March 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 13)

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view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum in April 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of font

Scene Description: an unlisted font located under the W tower

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 31)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Drake (2002: pl. 366)

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view of font

Scene Description: this font identified in Ghislain as being originally from Rummen [cf. BSI entry for Rummen]

Image Source: B&W reproduction in Colman & Colman (2002) of a photograph from IRPA-KIK, Bruxelles

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00201TIR

Museum and Inventory Number: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles

Church/Chapel: Formerly at the Parochiekerk Sint-Germanuskerk / Eglise Saint-Germain de Tirlemont

Church Patron Saints: St. Germain (Germanus)

Church Location: church address: Minderbroedersstraat 7, 3300 Tienen, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 16 81 77 82

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Tirlemont is about 20 km SE of Louvain

Historical Region: Brabant

Font Location in Church: [now in a museum -- a copy of the font is preserved in the NW chapel of the church]

Date: ca. 1149?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid) [basin only] [composite font], Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, of www.infomolina.com, for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: original collegial church here 12thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Schayes (1839) who mentions the font at Termonde, together with the ones at Tirlemont and Zedelgem, as the oldest of this type in Belgium. Schayes (ibid.) states that the font is made of copper ["en cuivre"], gives some measurements of the basin and records two of the inscriptions. Schayes (ibid.) further notes the disppeared base which incorporated a lion and a griffin, the former ridden by a human lifting a cup in one hand, his other arm raised "vers le ciel"; also there was a winged figure, "ange our génie" with arms stretched; part of this base disappeared by Schayes' time; the whole was raised on a stone plinth of octagonal shape, decorated with a bronze lion head at each angle. Schayes' partial text of the inscription is quoted (?) in M. Van Hasselt in Notice sur les fonts baptismaux de l'église de Saint-Barthélemy, a Liège, in the Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des ..., Volume 2; Volume 13, 1846, p. 86): "Dans un intéressant article, inséré au Messager des sciences historiques (année 1859, page 159) et consacré aux fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Germain à Tirlemont, qui se trouvent actuellement au musée de l'État, notre collègue M. Schayes nous présente ce monument comme le plus ancien ouvrage en fonte que possède la Belgique. Il date de l'an 1149, comme le témoigne l'inscription suivante qui règne dans la zone inférieure du bassin: "Anno dominicae incarnationis M° C° quadragesimo nono." [NB: Van Hasselt's citation of Schayes is not verbatim -- cf. InscriptionsArea and ImageArea in this record for the text as published by Schayes]. Described in Didron (1859), though he does not refer to it by any of the known names of the place it came from. Noted in Le Grand de Reulandt (1865) as a font that. together with the one at St-Barthelemy in Liege, were made of "cuivre battu", the product of "l'ancienne industrie dinantaise du XIIe siècle connue sous le nom de dinanderie et qu'avaient illustrée notamment les batteurs Jehan Patras et Jehan Joses". [NB: there is a replica of the font and it is made of copper, but the original font is cast bronze]. De Bruyn (1869) mentions the fonts at "Saint-Barthélemy, à Liége, et de Saint-Germain, à Tirlemont" as "spécimens typiques de la dinanderie au XIIe siècle". In Van de Casteele (1877). In his catalogue of the "Art chrétien" exhibition, Jansen (1964) describes the font as being of cast bronze "repoussé et ciselé" and confirms the dating of 1149 inscribed on the basin side. The basin has an upper register with 14 arches: the Baptism of Christ, the Agnus Dei, a Crucifixion, Christ on a rainbow, some Apostles, Evangelists et al. (a/p Jansen: Andrew, Germanus, Paul, Peter, Matthew, Luke and the symbols for John and Mark); the lower half of the basin is ornamented with incised spirals; inscriptions run all over the free spaces of the basin sides. The base is a central colonnette and six outer thin S-shaped ribs, all of which rest on a hexagonal stone platform decorated with lion torsos at the rib ends and floral motifs at the hexagon sides. Two half-bodies of lions carrying an angel and a knight (a/p Jansen) stem from the central colonnette of the base and rest their front legs on the stone platform. Jansen (ibid.) states that the font was acquired in 1848 from the church of St-Germain in Tirlemont (Nockert, 1995). "Cuve baptismale de l'eglise Saint-Germain de Tirlemont, de 1149 ... est aux Musees royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles." (Favreau, 1985). Carlsson (1976) mentions the presence of two lion-and-man motifs on it, and notes the 1149 dating. Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929), who gives the metal as copper. Described and illustrated in Zarnecki (1957) who dates it to between 1150 and 1160; on the base, he writes: "the motive of the supporting lions is of Italian origin. The stone base seems to have been re-cut, probably in the fourteenth century." Barral i Altet (1999) informs that the basin was originally mounted on a base decorated with animals. Drake (2002) states that, according to metallurgical analyses carried out and provided by Lutze, the two standing animals of the base are contemporary with the basin; the rest of the base was a candle-holder date ca. 1500 re-used for this font. [NB: a square mounted font with head ornamentation is shown in the Zodiaque's view of the W tower (Barral i Altet (1989), but no other information is available at present on that font and it is not listed in this index]. Colman & Colman (2002) show the Tirlemont font with the original 1149 date, and with modifications in the 15th and 19th centuries. The font is now [2010] displayed without the later base; instead a plain background allows for the display of the two original lions with riders. De Inventaris van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/dibe/relict/42838] [accessed 10 March 2015] reports that a copy of the 12th-century font is now displayed in this church, in the chapel of the north aisle; the original is kept in the K.M.K.G./ Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, in Brussels). [NB: for the stone font located outside the church see BSI entry for Rummen]. [NB: the present font in St Germanuskerk, noted and illustrated in BALaT [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/9487] [accessed 22 August 2022] is modern, of 1897].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.80602, 4.93953

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 21.67″ N, 4° 56′ 22.31″ E

UTM: 31U 636658 5630047

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze [iron base]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 53 cm* / 52 cm**

Basin Total Height: 53 cm* / 52 cm**

Height of Base: 58 cm (calculated)

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Schayes (1839) / ** Jansen (1964: 48)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Schayes', Favreau's and Jansen's transcriptions vary slightly. Abbrevitations have been filled in and "V" transcribed as "U" when vowel.

Inscription Location: All over the basin

Inscription Text: On the arches: "CHRISTUS FONS VITE FONTEM SIC CONDIDIT ISTUM UT NISI P[ER] MEDIUM MISERI REDEAMUS AD IPSUM on the bottom: VERBO ACCENDENTE AD ELEMENTUM FIT SACRAMENTUM on the vertical bands: ANNO DOMINICE INCARNATIONIS M° C° QUADRAGESIMO NONO, REGNANTE CUNRADO. EPISCOPO HENRICO IIe DUCE COMITE MARCHIONE SEPTENNI GODEFRIDO" [NB: Schaye's transcription varies slightly: CONRADO for CUNRADO, DE....ANTE for DUCE COMITE, which, in a footnote, he suggests it might be DOMINANTE] on the baptismm scene: "XPS-JOH BAPTISTA -- TUNICA DEI -- AGNUS" on St Andrew: "S.C.S. ANDREAS APOSTOLUS" on St Germanus: "S.C.U.S. GERMANUS" on St Paul: "SANCTUS PAULUS APOSTOLUS" on St Peter: "S.C.S. PETRUS APOSTOLUS" on Crucifixion: "IHS NAZAREU REX IUDEORUM -- LONGUS" on Evangelists' symbols: "MATHEUS - LUCAS - IOHAN - MARCUS" Schayes (1839) has: "CRISTUS, FONS VITE, FONTEM CONDIDIT ISTUM UT, NISI PER MEDIUM MISERI, READMUS [pour redeamus] AD IPSUM"; lower down: "VERBO ACCEDENTE AD ELEMENTUM"; then: ANNO DOMINICE ENCARNATIONIS Mo Co QUADRAGESIMO NONO, REGNANTE CONRADO, EPISCOPO HENRICO II, DE[...]ANTE, MARCHIONI SEPTENNI GODEFRIDO"

Inscription Source: Schayes (1839); R. Favreau, Favreau (1985, p. 125) and Jansen, Musées... (1964, p. 48)

REFERENCES

Barral i Altet, Xavier, Belgique romane, et Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1989

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

Colman, Pierre, Les fonts baptismaux de Saint-Barthélemy à Liège: chef-d'oeuvre sans pareil et noeud de controversion, Bruxelles: Académie Royale de Belgique, 2002

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

De Bruyn, Hyacinthe, abbé, Archéologie religieuse appliquée à nos monuments nationaux, Bruxelles: Victor Devaux et Cie., 1869-1870

Didron, Ainé, "Bronzes et orfévrerie du Moyen Age", 19, Annales archéologiques, 1859, pp. 5-221; r["References"]

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Favreau, Robert, "Inscription des fonts baptismaux d'Hildesheim", 38, 2, Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 1985, pp. 115-140; r["References"]

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale de Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Vaucluse: cantons Cadenet et Pertuis ; Pays d'Aigues, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1981

Le Grand de Reulandt, E., "Fonts baptismaux de la Collégiale de Dinant", 21, 2e serie, t. 1, Annales de l'Academie Royale d'Archeologie de Belgique, 1865, pp. 612-618; r["References"]

Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin fu Moyen Age, Brussels: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1964

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929

Schayes, A.G.B., Gand: L. Hebbelynck, 1839

Van de Casteele, D., "Fonts baptismaux à Huy, à Seraing et à Esneux", 13, Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 1877, pp. 195-214; r["References"]

Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957