Gallaix
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - facing each other - 2
Scene Description: On all four sides of the basin a/p Cloquet's description
INFORMATION
FontID: 02847GAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Croix à Gallaix / Heilig Kruiskerk
Church Patron Saints: Holy Cross
Church Location: rue d'en Bas, 7906 Gallaix, France
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 3-4 km W of Leuze-en-Hainaut
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: Ere, Gentinnes, etc.
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