Deux-Acren / Les Deux-Acren / Twee-Akren
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Results: 12 records
animal - bird - dove - 2 - back-to-back
![Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque." [cf. FontNotes about the identification of the animals]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230422009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque." [cf. FontNotes about the identification of the animals]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134443_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant - 3
![Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque." [cf. FontNotes about the identification of the animals]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230422008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque." [cf. FontNotes about the identification of the animals]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134440_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - 3
Scene Description: Three running lions on each side of the bain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134439_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: forming the capitals of the missing original columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1900 B&W photograph by the Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, in the BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039191] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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design element - motifs - plant or tree - 4
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134446_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Dource caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Vue de l'extérieur. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Exterior."
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134376_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Intérieur, la nef. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Interior. the nave."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134381_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. La nef, est-ouest. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Interior. The nave. East to west."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134419_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1900 B&W photograph by the Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, in the BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039191] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1905 B&W photograph in the BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10011875] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of font and cover - upper view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134447_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux Acren,église Saint-Martin. Lessines. Hainaut. Belgium. Font baptismal, 12e siècle. Parish church (église Saint-Martin). Baptismal font. 12th century. Romanesque."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2021 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [PMRMaeyaert] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_134436_B_Deux_Acren.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00822DEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Chem. du Mouplon 54, Deux-Acren, 7860 Lessines, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Deux-Acren is located off (E) the N42, in the municipality and 2 km ENE of Lessines
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: there may have been two churches here, Saint-Géréon and Saint-Martin, for the two parishes, Grand Acren and Petit Acren
Font Notes:
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Cloquet (1890 and 1895) describes the square mounted Tournai font as almost identical to the font at Lincoln Minster, except that the capitals of the Deux-Acren font can be dated slightly later than those at Lincoln. Cloquet describes Deux-Acren as having all the Tournai characteristic elements. The ornamentation of the basin sides is somewhat like the one at Lincoln, with running lions, dragons, etc., but certainly not identical [NB: we have photographic evidence of three of the basin sides [cf. ImagesArea]: one side has three passant lions, the two on the left passant to the left, the one on the right, passant to the righ; another side has two birds, possibly doves, back to back; the third side has three quadrupeds passant to the left; they are rather cartoon-like in their endering, but one can make an act of faith and identify them as dragons; we have no access to the carving on the fourth side]. Enlart (1902) mentions a five-column base. Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039191] [accessed 20 April 2023] made between 1101 and 1200 of Tournai stone, the base partly restored; 93 cm tall. The wooden cover is flat, round and plain, with a large handle; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.717000, 3.850000
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43' 1.2" N, 3° 51' 0" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern
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. 311
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