Bastogne / Bastenaken

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BH01: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: one of four heads

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A073185]

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BH02: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: one of four heads -- notice the iron shaft driven into the stone above it, part of the canopy by Pierre Scholtus added in 1941

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A073186]

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BH03: human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: one of four heads

BH04: human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: one of four heads

animal - mammal - lion - head - vine - palmette - fruit - rosette

Scene Description: a complex motif: the vegetation does not issue from the lion's mouth; a round bunch (arum? / grapes?) appears to come off the vine, but one rosette floats independently above and to the right, whereas a second one, located below the feline head, is attached through a twisted tendril

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2011 by Gabriel Sainlez et Jean-François Stoffel [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastogne._Eglise_St_Pierre._Fonts_baptismaux_(2).jpg] [accessed 29 March 2015]

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: a large one emcased in its own frame, on one of the sides of the basin

view of canopy and cover

Scene Description: canopy of iron by Pierre Scholtus, 1941 (height: 3 m.)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 November 2011 by Gabriel Sainlez et Jean-François Stoffel [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastogne._Eglise_St_Pierre._Fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 29 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Origine : au-delà de la fin du IXe siècle, époque (vers 893) à laquelle sa mention apparaît dans les écrits. La construction romane fut incendiée au XIIIe siècle. Les XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles virent des reconstructions et transformations architecturales. Après la dernière guerre, l'église éprouvée fut à nouveau restaurée.Les fenêtres des trois nefs furent percées selon la forme gothique au XVIe. Le choeur délimité par trois pans pans, et les nefs sont couverts de voûtes gothiques peintes en 1536."

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1914 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B016836]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1914 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B016838]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: N/a

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastogne_JPG00.jpg] [accessed 29 March 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1975 by I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M227592]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1895 by A.C.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003385]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

Scene Description: detail of the intallation of the Pierre Scholtus' canopy: four metal rods driven into the basin top, each into the the top of one of the four heads

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1941 by Victor Degand, C.R.M.S. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A125577]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1900 by I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003400]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover within the canopy: notice the chains attached to the round cover to raise it when needed

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A073184]

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view of font, canopy, baldachin and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02859BAS

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: place Saint-Pierre, 6600 Bastogne, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 (0)61/21 32 87

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Luxembourg / Luxemburg, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Bastogne (Bastenaken in Flemish) is 25 kms E of St-Hubert, in the province of Luxembourg, near the border with Luxembourg (the country)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1160-1165?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]

Cognate Fonts: Lustin, Flostoy, etc. [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: a church in Bastogne documented since 893; re-built 11thC and 16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Saintenoy (1891- ). Included by Cloquet (1895) among the round fonts of the Mosan type with four human heads at 90-degree angles on the basin sides. Enlart (1902) gives a similar description. An illustration in Borchgrave d'Altena (1971) shows one side of such font depicting a typically Norman lion head with acanthus or grape vines issuing from its mouth; the two visible corners have indeed human heads in them and the base appears to be made of columns, but it is not clear how many there are. There appears to be a large ugly metal cover on it. Noted in Ghislain (1986) as one of a handful of the Mosan-namurois fonts [Bastogne, Gentinnes, et Hanzinne, Hour and Saint-Séverin en Condroz] without arcade ornamentation. The same author (ibid.) lists this font as one of a group of Mosan fonts [Achêne, Asselt, Bastogne, Gentinnes and Zonhoven] that include the motif of a feline head with branches of palmette and/or grape-vines stemming from its mouth. Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan font consisting of a round basin raised on a multisupport base. Drake (ibid.) notes "the rare motifs at Bastogne and Halle-Booienhoven which look like flowers emerging between pairs of leaf clusters. They may however be no more than small, round bunches of grapes, as at Nouvion-sur-Meuse, and only appear to be flowers because they are round and are drawn emerging almost vertically from the shoot." An iron canopy, the work of Pierre Scholtus,supported on four iron shafts driven into the stone at the upper rim, was installed in 1941; a round, roughly cylindrical font cover, was raise via a set of chains within it. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160-1165, raised on a later replacement five-support base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.004889, 5.721142

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 0′ 17.6″ N, 5° 43′ 16.11″ E

UTM: 31U 694984 5542723

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 79.5 cm**

Basin Depth: 30 cm**

Basin Total Height: 38 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) / ** Ghislain (2009: 122)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: earlier cover; an iron canopy was added in 1941

REFERENCES

Borchgrave d'Altena, Joseph de, comte, Fonts baptismaux romans conservés au Chateau d'Emptinne, Bruxelles: [s.n.], 1971

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

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

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]; r["References"]

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

Saintenoy, Paul, "Prolégomènes à l'étude de la filiation des fonts baptismaux, depuis les baptistères jusqu'au XVIe siècle", 5-6, Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, 1891-1892, pp. 5 (243-281; 6 (69-157); r["References"]