Neuf-Berquin / Nieuw-Berkij / Nuef-Brequin / Zuid-Berkijn / Zuitberkin / Zuutberkin
Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - motifs - palmette
information
Scene Description: description of the font in 1886
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a text in M. le Chanoine Dehaisnes' Histoire de l’Art dans la Flandre, l’Artois et le Hainaut avant le XVe siècle (Lille: L. Quarré Libraire Editeur, 1886)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2013 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Neuf-Berquin_-_2.JPG] [accessed 11 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Floflo62, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2013 by Floflo62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Neuf-Berquin_-_1.JPG] [accessed 11 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 00810NEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Gilles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 59940 Neuf-Berquin, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 42 70 87
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located on the D947, in the canton de Merville, arrondissement of Dunkerque, N of Bethune, 25 km E of Lille, near the Belgian border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Church Notes: church built 1614-1616 on the site of a 12thC 'oratoire', of which some elements were re-used in the new building; damaged in WWI and repaired thereafter; damaged again in WWII and repaired in 1946
Font Notes:
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The medieval font from this church is described in M. le Chanoine Dehaisnes' Histoire de l’Art dans la Flandre, l’Artois et le Hainaut avant le XVe siècle (Lille: L. Quarré Libraire Editeur, 1886). Cloquet (1890: 415) and (1895: 319) includes this among a group of Tournai fonts. Mentioned in Saintenoy (1892) after Cloquet. Enlart (1890: 55 and 1902: 777n, 778n) lists it as a Tournai font ornamented with a blind arcade on the basin sides and mounted on a five-column base. In his earlier article in the Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (1890) Enlart writes: "ceux de Neuf Berquin […], dans le département du Nord, ont une cuve ornée d'arcatures reposant sur des pilastres en forme de croix à deux traverses égales; le dessus de la cuve est orné d'écoinçons à palmettes; le support central et les chapiteaux des quatre colonnettes sont semblables à ceux qui viennent d être décrits; les fûts des colonnettes ont disparu." In Bond (1908: 205) after Enlart. Ghislain (2009) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25699101] [accessed 20 April 2023] refers to this font as "vanished". [NB: the font may have been destroyed during WWI]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.66019, 2.67213
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 39′ 36.68″ N, 2° 40′ 19.67″ E
UTM: 31U 476826 5612089
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: Probably a central drain as in most other Tournai fonts.
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 319
Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 415
Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "A Twentieth-Century Baptismal Font from Wellen", 44, Metropolitan Museum Journal, 2009, pp. 37-46; p. 44 fn14
Saintenoy, Paul, Étude d'architecture comparée; prolegomènes a l'étude de la filiation des formes des fonts baptismaux depuis les baptistères jusqu'au XVIe siècle, Bruxelles: E. Lyon Claesen, 1892