Gallaix
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02847GAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: Ere, Gentinnes, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Sainte-Croix à Gallaix / Heilig Kruiskerk
Church Patron Saint(s): Holy Cross
Church Address: rue d'en Bas, 7906 Gallaix, France
Site Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 3-4 km W of Leuze-en-Hainaut
Font Notes:
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Cloquet (1895) describes the square mounted Tournai-type Gallaix font as being a later and logical development of the five-support earlier fonts, and argues that the four ornaments which appear at the corners of the lower platform of the base are the stylized remnants of the former supporting colonnettes, there being now only one, the central stem, element of the base. The sides of the square basin are ornamented with facing dragons. Enlart (1902) lists it among 11th-12th century fonts of the Tournai workshop. KIK-IRPA lists no font in Gallaix.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 540648 5606275
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: Probably centre hole as in most fonts of this type
REFERENCES
- Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 316-317 and ill. fig. 7
- Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 2