Beauvechain / Bevekom / Bôvetchén
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BH01: human figure - head - male - bearded - crowned
Scene Description: one of two, almost identical, at opposide sides of the basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Beauvechain_-_Tête_1_-_20.JPG] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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BH02: human figure - male - head - bearded - long mustache
Scene Description: two of them, almost identical, at opposite ends of the basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Beauvechain_-_Tête_2_-_20.JPG] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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BH03: human figure - head - male - bearded - crowned
Scene Description: two of them, almost identical, at opposite ends of the basin
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Beauvechain_-_Tête_3_-_01.JPG] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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BH04: human figure - male - head - bearded - long mustache
Scene Description: one of two, almost identical, at opposide sides of the basin
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches -beaded tape - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: four per side, between the heads
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2010 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Beauvechain_-_29.JPG] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the lower base
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: a very broad one, on the sides, between the four leaves at the angles
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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design element - patterns - torsade
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view of basin
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Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 22)
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2008 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beauvechain_E1JPG.jpg] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wouter Hagens, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2008 by Wouter Hagens [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beauvechain_Sulpice_A.jpg] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05897BEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Sulpice
Church Patron Saints: St. Sulpicius [aka Sulpitius]
Church Location: Rue de la Bruyère Saint-Martin 23, 1320 Beauvechain, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the Bravant Wallon, 10 km from Jodoigne, 40 km from Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: Brabant
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1150-1155?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929) as a Mosan baptismal font: round basin with four human heads at 90-degree angles [at least one of them wears a crown with a cross in it]; the sides between the heads are ornamented with a blind arcade of round arches, four per side; the upper rim side has a rope motif all around except where the heads are; round basin well; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base decorated with torsade pattern; the lower base has an upper round volume with a large rope moulding and four leaf or spur at 90-degree angles; plain square volume below, as is common in this type of font. Noted in Ghislain (1986) as a great example of use of the dark marble-like limestone (calcaire viséen) of the namurois region. Illustrated in Barral i Altet (1989). Described and illustrated in Drake (2002). Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1155; the font was excavated out of the rectory garden in 1875, the basin borken into two pieces; the basin was restored the following year and reinstalled inside the church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.780672, 4.77327
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 50.42″ N, 4° 46′ 23.77″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen / calcaire de Meuse)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 91 cm*
Basin Depth: 33 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009: 49)
REFERENCES
Barral i Altet, Xavier, Belgique romane, et Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1989
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
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. 96, 97, 98
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
Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929
Tollenaere, Lisbeth, "La sculpture sur pierre dans l'ancien diocèse de Liége à l'époque romane", 4e Série, Fascicule II., Recueil de Travaux d'Histoire et de Philologie, 1957