Neuf-Berquin / Nieuw-Berkij / Nuef-Brequin / Zuid-Berkijn / Zuitberkin / Zuutberkin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west view

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description of the font in 1886
Scene Description: description of the font in 1886
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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)
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00810NEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Gilles
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
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
Church Address: rue de l'Eglise, 59940 Neuf-Berquin, France -- Tel.: +33 3 28 42 70 87
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: destroyed font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 31U 476826 5612089
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.66019, 2.67213
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 39′ 36.68″ N, 2° 40′ 19.67″ E

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, p. 205
  • 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, p. 30
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 1, p. 778 footnote 3
  • 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, p. 12