Villers-la-Ville No. 1 / Vilé-l'-Veye / Villers la Ville

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animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: another view of a corner animal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "our du 11è ou 12è s., le reste de l'église est de 1926 par l'architecte Pepermans de Bruxelles"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1918 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A009985]

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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

Scene Description: the source [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)] gives the location of the old tympanum as "Eglise Notre-Dame de la Visitation[Villers-la-Ville]", and its provence as "abbaye[Villers-la-Ville]; Villers-la-Ville"

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A078310]

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view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum in April 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2010 by José Antonio Tolosa Urieta [www.infomolina.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05898VIL

Museum and Inventory Number: Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles / Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis - Brussel [orig. in the Musée du Cinquantenaire]

Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de la Visitation de Villers-la-Ville [moved to a museum]

Church Patron Saints: The Visitation of St. Mary

Church Location: Rue du Sart 20, Villers-la-Ville, Belgium -- Tel.: 071 87 73 27

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Villers-la-Ville is located of the N93-N5 junction, 2 km from Charleroi, SSE of Brussels

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Historical Region: Brabant

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1160?

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

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

Cognate Fonts: Fonts at Sclayn, Seraing and Lincent

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to José Antonio Tolosa Urieta, of www.infomolina.com, for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929) as a baptismal font with a square top plan, although the basin becomes rounded under the rim and has a figure at each corner; these figures are monsters or fabulous creatures [cf. infra for Ghislain's identification as lion protomes], their upper bodies being barrel-like and the heads rounded with bulging eyes and protruding ears; on the sides, between the heads, a blind arcade of round arches runs all around; rounded underbowl; round pedestal base, modern; round basin well. Described in Ghislain (1986) as a Mosan font of the Namurois group, one of a small uncommon mixed type in which the corners of the square top are made of four lion protomes surging from the rounded basin [the two others mentioned in Ghislain as part of this group are Sclayn and Lincent]. Listed in Drake (2002) as a square Mosan font raised on a a multiple support and similar to the font at Seraing [NB: the font is now [i.e., 2000] at the Musées royaux de Bruxelles]. The museum label identifies it as being from an "Atelier du Namurois", and dated ca. 1155-1165, the gift of Comte L. de Beauffort to the museum in 1877. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160, with detail similarities to the fonts at Sclayn, Seraing, Tessenderlo and Lincent. The basin is square at the top and rounded, with heads, below; it now rests on a single round pedestal base but originally it had four outer colonnettes as well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.577487, 4.529734

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 34′ 38.95″ N, 4° 31′ 47.04″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm*

Basin Depth: 29 cm*

Basin Total Height: 36 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 77.5 cm x 77.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009: 205)

REFERENCES

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]; 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

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929