Thynes / Tinne

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 20
Scene Description: five arches per side of the square basin; the four corners do not have columns
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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - west portal
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A084581]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02849THY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas [moved from the ancienne chapelle Saint-Nicolas ca. 1875]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 5502 Thynes, Belgium [old church coordinates: 50°16'45"N 4°59'14"E]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located 8 km from Dinant
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: Le Condroz dinantais
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Date: ca. 1160-1170?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: Cloquet gives the font at Gallaix [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: old church was partly demolished in 1875, when the new church was built; only the crypt and the chancel were retained; restored in the 21stC; the old font went to the new church
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in De Bruyn (1896): "Les fonts baptismaux de Thynes nous présentent un pédicule s'appuyant sur une base pattée à feuille d'eau. Sa partie lisse possède une astragale simple sans listel d'amortissement. La cuve est également amortie par un trapézoïde cubique, avec face entablée, ornée d'arcatures sans archivoltes, mais avec bases et chapiteaux. L'opercule hémisphérique de la cuve ne présente aucun intérêt." Cloquet (1890) and (1895) mentions the font here as having the same characteristic ornamentation at the lower base as the fonts at Gentinnes and Gallaix. Enlart (1902) lists it as a Tournai font of the 11th-12th century. Ghislain (1986) lists it as a square font, one on several Mosan-namurois fonts in the area decorated with a blind arcade [others mentioned are: Antheit, Grande-Enneille, Les Awirs, Opprebais, Roux-Miroir, Villers-la-Ville, Wauthier-Braine, Wellin], and states that the Thynes font can be seen as a simplification of the one at Flône ["les petits fonts de Thynes sont en quelque sorte la simplification de ceux de Flône"]. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160-1170, a simplified and later version of the font at Flône and the one at the M.R.A.H. [inv. 3723]. This font had been the original one of the ancient chapel of Saint-Nicolas, of which only the chancel and crypt now remain; it is used as a funerary chapel.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 16' 48.39" N, 4° 59' 6.03" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: Probably a centre hole like most fonts of this type.
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: 56 cm in total height [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015]
REFERENCES
Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 317
Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 417
De Bruyn, Hyacinthe, abbé, Archéologie religieuse appliquée à nos monuments nationaux, Bruxelles: Victor Devaux et Cie., 1869-1870
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
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. 92, 99 and figs. 11, 12
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009