Zillebeeke / Zillebeke / Zillebecke
Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002
Photograph and Permission received November 1998
Results: 8 records
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: C.S. Drake (November 1998)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received November 1998
view of font and cover
Scene Description: note the old wooden lid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 32)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Putte (1847)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - leaf - palm
Scene Description: Two rows of palmettes and grape bunches around the four sides of the square basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: C.S. Drake (November 1998)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received November 1998
human figure - head, face or mask - 4
Scene Description: Small heads or masks at the upper corners of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: C.S. Drake (November 1998)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received November 1998
symbol - fruit - grapes? (arum?)
Scene Description: Two rows of well executed palmette and grape or arum bunches on all four sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C. S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: C.S. Drake (November 1998)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received November 1998
view of font - section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Putte (1847)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Scene Description: note the new metal cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1989
Image Source: Barral i Altet (1989: pl. 125)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02095ZIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: Cousolre
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Catharinakerk van Zillebeke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church. In 1847 the font was reported in a corner, hiding thus two of the sides of the basin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria
Church Address: Pastoriestraat, Zillebeke, 8902 Ieper, Belgium
Site Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km SE of Ypres city centre
Font Notes:
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Square mounted font of the Tournai group; the basin has masks/heads at the four corners; the sides are ornamented with two rows of palmettes and grape bunches around the four faces of the square bowl; the underbowl is curved and ribbed; though the basin is the typical blue-ish marble of these fonts, the base appears to be a course reddish limestone. Described and illustrated in Putte (1847), which he compares to those at Saint-Venant, Termonde and Zedelghem [cf. corresponding BSI entries]; Putte (ibid.) reports the font placed at angle so that two of thw sides are permanently hidden, and dates the font to the same period as the other three, to "this side of the 11th century". Enlart (1902) lists as a 11th-12th century Tournai font and gives the location as Nord dept. in France. Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929: 16, 24 and fig. 32) who reports the damage caused to the font during the First World War; the photograph in Ronse, who dates the font as 13th century, shows a flat wooden cover on it. Described and illustrated in Barral i Altet (1989: 388 and pl. 125), where the font appears wearing a low-dome metal cover with a faciful Noah's ark-like finial. In Drake (2002: 177 etc.) [We are grateful to C.S. Drake for his photograph of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 494542 5631325
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.833611, 2.9225
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 1″ N, 2° 55′ 21″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Notes on Measurements: [cf. Putte's drawing in ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [two covers noted at different times 1)this metal cover in 1989; 2)a flat wooden cover in 1929]
REFERENCES
- Barral i Altet, Xavier, Belgique romane, et Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1989, p. 388 and pl. 125
- Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 316 and ill. fig. 6
- Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 48, 49, 50, 52, 58, 59, 177
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 2
- Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; p. 94, 105 fn40
- Putte, F. van de (abbé), Bruges: Imprimé chez Vandecasteele-Werbrouck, 1847, p. 63-70
- Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929, p. 16, 32 and fig. 32
- Zimmermann, Walther, "Romanische Taufsteine am Niederrhein", Heft 155-156, Annalen des historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein, 1954, pp. 481; p. 482