Waarbeke
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human figure - head
Scene Description: a/p Jansen's catalogue notes
symbol - fruit - grapes
Scene Description: a/p Jansen's catalogue notes
symbol - vegetation
Scene Description: a/p Jansen's catalogue notes
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Waarbeke Sint-Amanduskerkhof"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joeri Mertens, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 15 February 2017 by Joeri Mertens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waarbeke_Sint-Amanduskerkhof_(12)_-_307928_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern 19thC font in this church [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M011294] by Luc De Rammelaere, in the BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/12079] [accessed 2 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02874WAA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles
Church/Chapel: Sint-Amanduskerk, Waarbeke [now in a museum]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for the church] Waarbekeplein zonder nummer, 9506 Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Waarbeke is located in the municipality and about 5 km E of Geraardsbergen, about 25 km W of Brussels
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 14th century [Jansen] / 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help indocumenting the late-medieval font here
Church Notes: Other interesting fonts in the museum.
Font Notes:
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Jansen's catalogue of 1964 shows an octagonal basin mounted on a pedestal base, the upper part of which s cylindrical but the lower octagonal; the upper part of the basin is adorned with a double scotia under which there is a band of vegetal ornamentation [Jansen identifies also bunches of grapes] and two human faces; the old metal loop to secure the lid is still in place; the base has a scotia around its middle but is otherwise unadorned. Jansen's catalogue states that the font was acquired from the church at Waarbeke in 1848 (Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, 1964).
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 19 May 2022) suggested cognate fonts at Smeerebbe-Vloerzegem, Opbrakel, Sint-Maria-Oudenhove and Nieuwenhove, in the same area. The present font in the church is modern [cf. ImagesArea].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.777926, 3.968735
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46' 40.5" N, 3° 58' 7.5" E
UTM: 31U 568299 5625577
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 77 cm* (max.)
Notes on Measurements: * Jansen (1964)
REFERENCES
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin fu Moyen Age, Brussels: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, 1964