Bruges No. 1 / Brugge
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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Berggren (2002: 158 pl. 14)
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design element - motifs - scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Berggren (2002: 158 pl. 14)
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Berggren, 2002
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Berggren (2002: 158 pl. 14)
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Gilliskerk (Brugge)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cmcmcm1, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 September 2021 by Cmcmcm1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brügge,_Sint-Gillis_(Außenansicht)_(4).jpg] [accessed 17 September 2021]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Saint Gilles at the end of the road."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dennis G. Jarvis, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 September 2013 by Dennis G. Jarvis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgium-5749_-_Church_of_Saint_Gilles_(13639188195).jpg] [accessed 17 September 2021]
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view of font
Scene Description: the Gotland Paradise font in the Bruges church; the pedestal base is a later replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincent Debonne, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 April 2012 by Vincent Debonne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brugge-Baliestraat-zondernummer_-_216198_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2021]
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view of font
Scene Description: as it was during its time in the museum at Brugge
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1952 B&W photograph [cliché B136300] in BALaL KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/103641] [accessed 2 June 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the Gotland Paradise font in the Bruges church; the pedestal base is a later replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincent Debonne, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 April 2012 by Vincent Debonne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brugge-Baliestraat-zondernummer_-_216198_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the baptismal font displayed as a composite object during its residence at the Brugge[deelgemeente] Gruuthusemuseum [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: [source not available] received from Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 09141BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Sint-Gilliskerk / Eglise Saint-Gilles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Sint-Gilliskerkstraat / Baliestraat 2, 8000 Brugge, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located 2 blocks NW of the Camerstraat canal bridge, Bruges city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel / Malines-Brussels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Group 6) [Berggren]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Koszalin, in Poland
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help with, and photographs of this font
Church Notes: built ca. 1240 as a chapel-of-ease to Onze-Lieve-Vrouw; became its own parish 1311; much modified in later centuries
Font Notes:
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This baptismal font is difficult to classify because it has undergone several stages of composition/transformation, as shown below.
The entry in BALaL KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/103641] [accessed 2 June 2022] describes it as a composite font made up of a Romanesque lower base, a column fragment of the Gothic period as the stem, and a 13th-century basin; it also notes that the font was found in Brugge, near Sint-Gilliskerk ["Samengesteld uit een basis in romaanse stijl, een gotisch pijlerfragment als middensteun en een doopkuip van de XIIIe eeuw. Gevonden te Brugge nabij de Sint-Gilliskerk"] [NB: unfortunayely the BALaL... entry does not specify which part it was that turned up in Brugge, presumably the basin]. The BALaL... entry gives the location as: "Brugge[deelgemeente] [...] Gruuthusemuseum", and suggest a date between 1201 and 1300; the height at the time of that composition is given as 103 cm in the same source. Baptismal font of the "Paradise" font ["Paradisfunt"] type. Illustrated in Berggren (2002: 158 pl. 14): polygonal -roughly hemispherical- basin decorated with a scotia at the upper basin side, and a blind arcade of trefoil arches all around the sides and underbowl. [Base missing]. Berggren (ibid.) points out its similarity of this basin with the one of the font at Koszalin, in Poland. This font is noted and illustrated in Stéphane Vandenberghe's "Nieuwe gegevens omtrent de gotische doopvont van de Sint-Gilliskerk te Brugge", in Jaarboek. Stad Brugge, Stedelijke Musea vol. 8 (1995/96) p. 255-261. Noted and illustrated in Ergoedinzicht.be [https://erfgoedinzicht.be/collecties/detail/1dd90c51-f190-5733-90f9-f04c7d4e5d6b] [accessed 2 June 2022]: "Twintigzijdige natuurstenen (regio Gotland/Zweden) doopvont waarbij de zijden versierd zijn met een drielob. De zijden zijn voorzien van opstaande ribben die onderaan in een punt samenkomen. In de rand zijn er sporen van een verdwenen deksel. In de kuip is een smeedijzeren schaal. De doopvont heeft een hedendaagse ronde voet in natuursteen."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.214797, 3.22695
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 53.27″ N, 3° 13′ 37.02″ E
UTM: 31U 515851 5673736
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [from Gotland]
Number of Pieces: one [base missing]
Font Shape: icosagon (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: icosagon
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 109 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ergoedinzicht.be
REFERENCES
Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002