Lichtervelde / Lichterwelde
Results: 18 records
B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant - 2
Scene Description: unlike the the other two pairs, these dragons pass each other in opposite directions; the ornamented bodies are nonetheless identical
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - regardant - intertwined - 2
Scene Description: like the similar pair of dragons on the other side of the basin, the dragons intertwine their fanned tails
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 February 2015)
B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - regardant - intertwined - detail
B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - regardant - intertwined - detail
B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - regardant - intertwined - 2
Scene Description: the ferocity is in the turned heads but the uncharacteristic fanned tails intertwine in a beautiful palmette-like motif -- notice the restored left corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 February 2015)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Vereenooghe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Willy Vereenooghe of ArcheoNet Vlaanderen [www.flickr.com/photos/erfgoed/2393115093/] [accessed 24 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
view of font
Scene Description: a rendition by Ronse (1929) of the font in its original state, before the damage and restoration: notice the faceted outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration by and in Ronse (1929: fig. 35)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Scene Description: the font as it was ca. 1857, before the damage and restoration: notice the faceted outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration by Le Grand de Reulandt (1857); reproduced in Ronse (1929: fig. 34)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font
Scene Description: the font as it was before 1877
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ronse (1929: fig. 21)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font in 1923, after its restoration: notice the round outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ronse (1929: fig. 20)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of basin and cover
![the cover is modern, probably introduced at the time of the restoration [or a replica of that one]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150224030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the cover is modern, probably introduced at the time of the restoration [or a replica of that one]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a pattern of very large foliage shapes decorates the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 February 2015)
symbol - orb and cross - Latin cross - 4
Scene Description: the spandrels of the upper basin surface have an orb-and-cross motif with palmettes -- in this image the restored upper left corner is clearly visible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration by and in Ronse (1929: fig. 35)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LimoWreck, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2007 by LimoWreck [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lichtervelde_-_Sint-Jacobuskerk_1.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a pattern of streaked leaves forms the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 February 2015)
design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4
Scene Description: adorning the outer part of the bases of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Vereenooghe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Willy Vereenooghe of ArcheoNet Vlaanderen [www.flickr.com/photos/erfgoed/2393115093/] [accessed 24 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the base of the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Vereenooghe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Willy Vereenooghe of ArcheoNet Vlaanderen [www.flickr.com/photos/erfgoed/2393115093/] [accessed 24 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00826LIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: Other Tournai fonts: Dendermonde, Zedelgem, Zillebeke, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Jacob de Meerderekerk Lichtervelde / Sint-Jacobuskerk / Église paroissiale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder] & St. Margaret
Church Notes: church 1878-1880; font damaged by tower dynamited in 1918 by retreating German forces; church re-built 1918; font restored and returned to church in 1823
Church Address: Kerkplein, 8810 Lichtervelde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Site Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Lichterwelde is located off (N) the N35, W of the E403/A17, 5 kms SSE of Torhout, in the West Flanders province of Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Brugge / Diocèse de Bruges / Diocese of Bruges (Brugge)
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored font [the outer colonnettes of the base are a modern replacement -- cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The font here was described and illustrated in Le Grand de Reulandt (1857), with measurements; he concludes that the font at Lichtervelde is older than those at Termonde and Zedelghem, and dating it to between the late-11th century and the early-12th. Le Grand (ibid.) dates the Termonde font to the first half of the 12th century, and that of Zedelghem to the second half. Noted in Van de Casteele (1877). Described and illustrated in Cloquet (1895) as a square mounted font of the Tournai group; the ornamentation on the sides of the basin shows pairs of dragons intertwined. The base consists of a broad round central column, plus four detached octagonal colonnettes, one at each corner; the lower base is a square platform with rounded pediment. Described in Enlart (1902) along the same lines. Cited in Bond (1908) after Enlart. Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929), who informs that, when the retreating German army blew up the church tower upon the arrival of the Allied forces, the font was buried in the debris and damaged; the outer colonnettes of the base that were octagonal and made of wood were replaced by round stone shafts ca. 1923 when the font was restored. Ronse (ibid., 14n) notes that the earlier wooden colonnettes were themselves a replacement of still earlier colonnettes, also wooden but round, that had taken place in 1877 [Ronse cites Soil de Moriamé, Annales de l'Émulation , 1926, as source]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paula Guillot for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 509935 5652891`
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.02749, 3.14167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 1′ 38.96″ N, 3° 8′ 30.01″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 23 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 79 x 79 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Le Grand de Reulandt (1857)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat with metal decoration and handle
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. 309-310
- Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416
- 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
- Le Grand de Reulandt, E., "Tours des églises de Thourout et de Lichtervelde; font baptismaux de cette dernière commune", 31, Messager des sciences historiques et archives des arts de Belgique, 1857, pp. 141-151; p. 141-151
- Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929, p. 13-14, 25 and figs. 20, 21, 34, 35
- Van de Casteele, D., "Fonts baptismaux à Huy, à Seraing et à Esneux", 13, Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 1877, pp. 195-214; p. 202