Hal / Halle / Hal sur Senne
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12 - standing
![tentative identification -- on the lower level of the font cover [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151024009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: tentative identification -- on the lower level of the font cover [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 July 2012 by MJJR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halle_Basiliek_R02.jpg] [accessed 24 October 2015]
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Apostle or saint - Church Father - 4
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Apostle or saint - St. George - riding horse
Scene Description: in the middle volume of the lid, one of three equestrian saints
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Apostle or saint - St. Hubert - riding horse
Scene Description: in the middle volume of the lid, one of three equestrian saints
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Apostle or saint - St. Martin - on horseback
Scene Description: in the middle volume of the lid, one of three equestrian saints
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - angel holding clothes
Scene Description: a scene of baptism on the top level of the lid, as finial
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant - 8
Scene Description: supporting the base of the font on their backs
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - with gables or canopies - pinnacled - crocketed - 12
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: at various levels on the font cover
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: at various levels on the font cover
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Napoleon Vier, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2005 by Napoleon Vier [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KerkHalle.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2013]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parsifall, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2012 by Parsifall [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halle,_Sint_Martinusbasiliek_06.jpg] [accessed 24 October 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest end
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Image Source: engraving in the Revue de l'art Chrétien (1886) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revue_de_l'art_Chrétien_1886_03.JPG] [accessed 24 October 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Donar Reiskoffer, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2011 by Donar Reiskoffer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20110419_Halle_(12).jpg] [accessed 24 October 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: notice one of the large metal holy-water stoubs by the left pier
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view of font
Scene Description: the metal butted arm pointing towards mid-stem is the lever to operate the crane to move the font cover
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Halle (België): interieur van de Sint-Martinusbasiliek - doopkapel met 15de-eeuwse doopvont / Hal (Belgique) : intérieur de la basilique Saint-Martin - chapelle baptismale avec fonts baptismaux du 15ème siècle" -- harp-shaped crane has metal arm visible here to the right of the stem of the font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02957HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Basilique St-Martin / Sint-Martinusbasiliek [aka Notre-Dame de Hal]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Hal ("Halle" in Flemish) is located in the Bravant province of Belgium, 16 kms SSW of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Historical Region: Brabant Flamand
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, located in the SW of the church
Date: 1444?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Guillaume Lefèvre de Tournai
Church Notes: early-to-mid 14thC Gothic church
Font Notes:
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Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a noteworthy font here, without further details. Lübke (1870) notes "a contrivance like a crane [...] serves for the raising of the heavy lid" in this church. Listed by Enlart (1902) as a metal font on a stone base, dated to to 1444. Lasteyrie (1926-1927), who does not mention the font in his text, illustrates the font, the cover and the original metal mechanism which raises it; the rasing contraption is an odd-looking triangular frame, like a rectangular triangle from whose hypotenuse extends a lever which, when lowered by hand, pulls down on an articulated arm that raises the font cover. Lasteyrie informs that this ingenious apparatus was made in 1446 by Guillaume Lefèvre, a founder/smelter from Tournai, and that it is still working. The font itself consists of a round basin with vertical sides and hemispheric underbowl; the stem of the base appears to be octagonal with seated figures in niches; there are two wider volumes, also octagonal, the lower of which rests on the backs of eight couchant lions. The cover is cylindrical and quite elaborate, with three levels; the lower level, the tallest, has twelve figures standing in niches; the medium level, much shorter, has three horse-and-rider figures on it; the top level is a baptism od Christ scene]. Described and illustrated in the web site of Sint Martinusbasiliek-Halle online [http://home.pi.be/~par4298/] which informs that the object is made of copper, the work of Guillaume Lefèvre de Tournai; the same source identifies the figures on the font as the four Fathers of the Latin Church, and the ones on the cover as [from top to bottom]: 1)Baptism of Christ in the Jordan; 2)equestrian statues of St. Martin -patron saint of the church-, St. Hubert and St. George; 3)the twelve Apostles.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.73667, 4.23722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 12.01″ N, 4° 14′ 13.99″ E
UTM: 31U 587320 5621290
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, copper
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on one of the mouldings of the pedestal base
LID INFORMATION
Date: mid-15th century?
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: yes [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; p. 446 fn2
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927
Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870