Blaugies

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: shown on the base here; this ornamentation appears on the basin when the basin-base position is reversed

Image Source: digital image of an undated négatif monochrome [cliché A097964] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: shown on the base here; this ornamentation appears on the basin when the basin-base position is reversed

Image Source: digital image of an undated négatif monochrome [cliché M218267] by Brigitte Ugeux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: this ornamentation appears on the base when the basin-base position is reversed

Image Source: digital image of an undated négatif monochrome [cliché M218267] by Brigitte Ugeux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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design element - patterns- ribbed

Scene Description: shown on the base here; this ornamentation appears on the basin when the basin-base position is reversed

Image Source: digital image of an undated négatif monochrome [cliché A097964] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: note the inverted basin of the 12th century now serving as lower base NB: cf. ImageFileNo. 1220316002 for another view of the same and ImageFileNo. 1220316003 for a photograph in which the position of the two basins is reversed]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Ronse (1929: fig. 27)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: note the inverted basin of the 12th century now serving as lower base NB: cf. ImageFileNo. 0020418024 for another view of the same and ImageFileNo. 1220316003 for a photograph in which the position of the two basins is reversed]

Image Source: digital image of an undated négatif monochrome [cliché A097964] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: note the inverted basin now serving as lower base NB: cf. ImageFileNo. 0020418024 and ImageFileNo. 1220316003 for two photographs in which the position of the two basins is reversed]

Image Source: digital image of an undated négatif monochrome [cliché M218267] by Brigitte Ugeux, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: notice the position of the two basins

Image Source: digital photograph by Freddy Adam in Le Canton de Dour [http://home.scarlet.be/~tse05035/pages/leglise_de_blaugies.htm] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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view of font in context - southwest side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 18 November 2018 by Guy Hanse, [http://www.doyenne-dour.be/page180.html] [accessed 16 March 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05901BLA

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Aubin de Blaugies / Sét-Aubégne de Blaugies

Church Patron Saints: St. Aubin [aka Albinus of Angers]

Church Location: rue de la Frontière 33, 7370 Dour, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 2-3 km SSE of Dour, just N of the border with France

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tournai

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 13th century / 12th-century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Church Notes: original church 12thC, documented 1110 as a chapel-od-ease to Dour; present church is 16thC re-building; modified 18th, 19th and 20thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Théodore Bernier's Dictionnaire géographique, historique, archéologique, biographique & bibliographique du Hainaut (Mons: H. Manceaux, 1879: 62) mentions a "cuve baptismale romane" in the church of Saint-Albin, Blaugies. Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929) as a composite baptismal font: the square basin is plain but has the type of underbowl commonly found in the Tournai fonts; the pedestal base is cylindrical and plain. The lower base volume is actually an ornamented basin of the 12th century inverted to serve as a step-up for this font. The upper basin shows an old cover with the locking mechanism in place in Ronse's illustration. There is an index reference (1930) to vol. IX, p. 501 of the Bulletin des Commissions Royales d'Art et d'Archeologie, related to the font [we are unable at this time to locate the right content in the Bulletin] . Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan font. Listed and illustrated in BALaT-KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10014808] [accessed 16 March 2022] as a stone baptismal font with date 1101-1200; this source does not mention the composite nature of the font. Two font covers are recorded in the above sources: 1) a flat wooden cover one appears with the locking hardware in place in Ronse's reproduction of the photograph by Soil de Moriamé. and in one of the photographs in BALaT KIK-IRPA [cf. ImagesArea]; 2) a metal dome with finial in one of the photographs in BALaT KIK-IRPA [cf. ImageArea]. Noted in Eglise paroissiale Saint-Aubin de Blaugies [https://www.douretsafollehistoire.be/2019/04/25/eglise-paroissiale-saint-aubin-de-blaugies/] [accessed 16 March 2022] as "fonts baptismaux qui datent du XIIe siècle" and does not mention the composite nature of the font either. Similarly described in the Dour commune site [https://www.communedour.be/loisirs/tourisme/historique-de-dour/blaugies] [accessed 16 March 2022]. The blog entry Blaugies autrefois [http://blaugiesautrefois.over-blog.com/2014/12/st-aubin-description-interieure-ses-richesses.html] [accessed 16 March 2014] refers to Bernier's mention of a Romanesque font in his Dictionnaire[...] [cf. supra], and adds: "La base est en pierre claire noirâtre, traversée de veines blanches, la partie supérieure est en pierre de même nature, mais sans veine. Le tout est grossièrement bouchardé, sauf les sculptures. Quatre feuilles sculptées forment l'amortissement reliant les angles inférieurs de la cuve quadrangulaire au fût cylindrique sur lequel elle est posée.(article: novembre 1898" [sic]. This same blog entry includes two images of the font, each showing the alternate positions basin-base; the first one shows the foliage decorated basin as base, with the caption: "Cuve baptismale, art roman du 12ème S Cuve munie d'un couvercle en bois dont le pied ressemblerait à une ancienne cuve retournée"; the secod picture shows the basisns reversed and is captioned: "Après restauration, grâce aux techniques modernes de collage de la pierre, la cuve a été remise en position normale", which suggests the 'proper' position basin-vs-base, and does not mention the possibility that the font may instead be a composite.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Font Height (less Plinth): 123 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BALaT-KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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"]

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