Archennes / Archania / Archenna / Eechten / Eerken / Erchen / Erchene / Erkene / Erkenna / Ertchene / Hierchine

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 16

Scene Description: without supports; four per side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094565]

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head - unidentified

Scene Description: a/p Cloquet, four heads

head?

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [NB: as displayed in 2013; orientation is approximate] -- believed to have been another male head

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094565]

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human figure - head

Scene Description: a/p Cloquet and Enlart, four human heads at 90-degree angles of the basin sides

human figure - male - head

Scene Description: on the south side [NB: as displayed in 2013; orientation is approximate]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094566]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: damaged; on the west side [NB: as displayed in 2013; orientation is approximate]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094567]

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: on the north side [NB: as displayed in 2013; orientation is approximate]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094568]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digtal photograph taken 20 June 2008 by Wouter Hagens [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archennes_church_A.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Johan Bakker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25037-CLT-0015-01_eglise_Saint-Pierre_Archennes_(3).jpg] [accessed 28 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is now located at the east end, in the presbitery, south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Johan Bakker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25037-CLT-0015-01_eglise_Saint-Pierre_Archennes.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font in 1945: the lower base has been repaired since 1910

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094564]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font in 1945: the large metal staple of the old cover is visible here, as is the side with the broken off head

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A094565]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: as the font stood in 1910: notice the broken lower base and the large finial of the cover at the time

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B011039]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font as displayed in 2013 in the presbitery of the church; the orientation of the heads now has the broken off head facing the east side so that the remaining three heads can be seen from the nave

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 June 2013 by Johan Bakker [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25037-CLT-0015-01_eglise_Saint-Pierre_Archennes.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00384ARC

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Rue de Florival, 1, 1390 Archennes (Grez-Doiceau), France -- Tél: 010/844269

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off the N25, in the municipality of Grez-Doiceau, near Nivelles

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai

Historical Region: Namur

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery, to the left (S) of the altar

Date: ca. 1160-1165? [basin only]

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [Ghislain] / 13th century (late) [Pudelko] [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]

Cognate Fonts: Odilienberg, Lustin, etc.

Church Notes: original church probably mid-13thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles (1889, vol. 3, p. 158-167) report on the monthly meeting of the society and include a communication by M. Cassiers on Les fonts baptismaux de l'église d'Archennes (Brabant): "M. Cassiers attire l'attention sur des fonts baptismaux intéressants qui existent dans la cure de l'église d'Archennes (Brabant). L'assemblée estime qu'il ya lieu de s'efforcer de sauver de l'oubli le moment qui vient de lui être signalé. En conséquence, la commission est chargée de faire le nécessaire auprès de la commission directrice du Musée royal d'antiquités de Bruxelles." In Saintenoy (1892). Cloquet (1895) includes the Archennes font among the Mosan type of rounded basins with four heads, at 90-degree angles. Illustrated in Pudelko (1932); the base is a round pedestal with some relief. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160-65; the font had been kept in the rectory until its restoration in 1890, and placed in the chancel of the church -in the presbitery- in July 2002. Ghislain (ibid.) further notes that the lower base is totally uncharacteristic of this filiation and it must have belonged to another font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.751417, 4.671306

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 5.1″ N, 4° 40′ 16.7″ E

UTM: 31U 617897 5623514

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre Mosan)

Font Shape: pedestal font

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm**

Basin Total Height: 31 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) / ** Ghislain (2009)

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: pyramidal square, with small cross finial/handle [NB: it had a different cover in 1910]

REFERENCES

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; r["References"]

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

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932

Saintenoy, Paul, "Prolégomènes à l'étude de la filiation des fonts baptismaux, depuis les baptistères jusqu'au XVIe siècle", 5-6, Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, 1891-1892, pp. 5 (243-281; 6 (69-157).