Ramskapelle / Ramscapelle / Ramscappelle-lez-Nieuport / Ramsecapel

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette

Scene Description: a large double palmette between the heads

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1968 by Jean Pierre Renard, KIK-IRPA [cliché M033451]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: two of them were replaced in the restoration of ca. 1924 [cf. Font notes] -- the repairs are discernible here

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1968 by Jean Pierre Renard, KIK-IRPA [cliché M033451]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the re-built church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2014 by Bart Seys [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramskapelle_Nieuwpoort_Sint-Laurentiuskerk.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 29)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1968 by Jean Pierre Renard, KIK-IRPA [cliché M033451]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05899RAM

Church/Chapel: Sint-Laurentiuskerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: 8620 Ramskapelle, Niuport, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off the E-40, SW of Nieuwpoort, WSW of Brugge

Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai type?

Church Notes: church practically destroyed in WWI

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929: 14-15 and fig. 24) as a beautiful Romanesque basin recovered in 1924; although a Tournai font -writes Ronse- it is round, a rare case in the 12th century, and ornamented with four heads; the sides of the basin, between the heads, are ornamented with palm motifs. Ronse further informs that the basin had been in a meadow for a long time serving as a water trough, until the parish priest M. Jacobs undertook to rescue it, furnish it with a new base and return it to its former function [NB: in the caption of the photograph of this font, however, Ronse [ibid., fig. 24] states that it was "l'abbé A. Maertens" who identified the font in a meadow, and that the base and two of the basin heads that had been damaged were restored "par M. J. Reubens" inspired on the fonts at Lichterwelde, Alsamberg and, especially, Opprebais. The font appears in this illustration mounted on a cluster of a central column and four corner shafts resting on a moulded lower base and square plinth commonly found in fonts of this area.. There is also a flat wooden lid covering the round basin well on this illustration. Described and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [ref.: 32064], with date in the 12th-13th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

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