Lichtervelde / Lichterwelde

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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

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

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 - 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

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

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant - 2

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a pattern of very large foliage shapes decorates the underbowl

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 - foliage

Scene Description: a pattern of streaked leaves forms the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Willy Vereenooghe of ArcheoNet Vlaanderen [www.flickr.com/photos/erfgoed/2393115093/] [accessed 24 February 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the base of the columns of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Willy Vereenooghe of ArcheoNet Vlaanderen [www.flickr.com/photos/erfgoed/2393115093/] [accessed 24 February 2015]

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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

Image Source: digital image of an illustration by and in Ronse (1929: fig. 35)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin and cover

Scene Description: the cover is modern, probably introduced at the time of the restoration [or a replica of that one]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2014 by Paula Guillot

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - west view

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]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font as it was before 1877

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ronse (1929: fig. 21)

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

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: a rendition by Ronse (1929) of the font in its original state, before the damage and restoration: notice the faceted outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital image of an illustration by and in Ronse (1929: fig. 35)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font in 1923, after its restoration: notice the round outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ronse (1929: fig. 20)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2008 by Willy Vereenooghe of ArcheoNet Vlaanderen [www.flickr.com/photos/erfgoed/2393115093/] [accessed 24 February 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00826LIC

Church/Chapel: Sint-Jacob de Meerderekerk Lichtervelde / Sint-Jacobuskerk / Eglise paroissiale

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder] & St. Margaret

Church Location: Kerkplein, 8810 Lichtervelde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres

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)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font

Cognate Fonts: Other Tournai fonts: Dendermonde, Zedelgem, Zillebeke, etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Paula Guillot for her photographs of this font

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.02749, 3.14167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 38.96″ N, 3° 8′ 30.01″ E

UTM: 31U 509935 5652891`

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

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

Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; r["References"]

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

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; r["References"]

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929

Van de Casteele, D., "Fonts baptismaux à Huy, à Seraing et à Esneux", 13, Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 1877, pp. 195-214; r["References"]