Gerpinnes / Djerpene

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BH01: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: one of the four heads; one of the two replacements heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_09.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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BH02: human figure - male - head - bearded - moustache

Scene Description: one of the four heads; one of the two original heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_11.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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BH03: human figure - male - head - bearded - moustache

Scene Description: one of the four; one of the two replacements heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_12.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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BH04: human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing mitre?

Scene Description: one of the four heads; one of the two original heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_13.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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

Scene Description: this area of the font shows the versatility of the 'calcaire de Meuse' stone, able to acquire a lustrous almost black shine where polished

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_19.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leaves on the underbowl corners serve as capitals for the outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_09.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_19.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_08.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_08.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_18.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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view of base

Scene Description: the base of the font as photographed for the Rapport Rahir 1902 page 56 nº 101, before its restoration

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1902 by Edmond Rahir [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B005101]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of basin

Scene Description: the basin of the font as photographed for the Rapport Rahir 1902 page 56 nº 101, before its restoration

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1902 by Edmond Rahir [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B005101]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of basin and cover

Scene Description: showing the rifferent style of heads introduced by the restoration

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital image in www.si-gerpinnes.be

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 21/1/2004)

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: photograph taken before the 1953 restoration of the church

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A052352]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: photograph taken after the 1953 restoration of the church, and the move of the font to the west end of the centre aisle

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Pierre Sluse, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M12988]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font as photographed for the Rapport Rahir 1902 page 56 nº 101, before its restoration

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1902 by Edmond Rahir [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B005101]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_08.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [cliché E034797] in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10072385] [accessed 31 March 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by EmDee [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_Gerpinnes_23.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: photograph taken after the 1953 restoration of the church, and the move of the font to the west end of the centre aisle

Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1967 by Pierre Sluse, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M12989]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph by Jean-Pierre Sluse [cliché M012990] in KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10072385] [accessed 31 March 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09143GER

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Michel-et-Sainte-Rolende

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & St. Rolende [aka Rolendis]

Church Location: 6280 Gerpinnes, Hainaut, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located 10 km SSE of Charleroi

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Historical Region: Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle

Date: ca. 1160?

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

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

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to M. Edmond Van Der Meiren, président du Syndicat d'Iniative de Gerpinnes, for the image of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: earliest church here perhaps late-7th or early-8thC; monolithic stone sarcophage of St. Rolande may be 8thC; Shrine of St. Rolende by goldsmith workshop of Henri Libert, 1599

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Ghislain (1986). Partial illustration in Barral i Altet (1989). Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan Font. Romanesque baptismal font of the 12th century, Mosan group. Ghislain, in L'art mosan (2007) suggests a date around 1150-1155. The round basin has four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles, one of them wearing a mitre [a bishop or abbot?], from which stem four slender colonnettes [not original; a replacement] that rest on the square lower base; the sides of the basin are decorated with varied motifs: 1)a blind arcade of round arches; 2)an acanthus motif]; besides the four detached colonnettes mentioned above, the base has a broad central column, plain, which, like the others, rests on the lower base. Medium-dome metal cover with orb-and-cross finial. The location in which the font now appears, the centre of the nave, would not have been the original. It was moved in the 20th century [source: Syndicat d'Iniative de Gerpinnes www.si-gerpinnes.be]. 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; restored in 1901, with the outer colonnettes of the base replaced in 1965 [NB: but Rahir's report shows the basin unrestored in 1902; was it restored in 1905?]; about half of he basin is the result of the 1901 restoration, and only two of the heads are original; the rest of it is cement work, which includes the inner well, as well as the area where the drain was [would have been?]. Ghislain (ibid.) further remarks on the detail similarities with fonts at Flostoy, Goesnes, Ohey, Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, Rousson, Wellin, Bastogne, etc. Detailed views of the font appear in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQgOJiEre-8 [accessed 27 November 2023] A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (email of 27 November 2023) notes: "the difference among the heads is the result of the repair of the heavily damaged font, on which heads were lacking. Only 2 heads are original"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.337593, 4.526552

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20′ 15.34″ N, 4° 31′ 35.59″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre Mosan)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

Drainage Notes: [unknown: reconstructed area]

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm*

Basin Depth: N/A [cf. FontNotes]

Basin Total Height: 37 cm*

Height of Central Column: 43 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 153 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009: 141) / ** BALaT KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [taken in 1902, before the restoration of the font]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century? / 19th century?

Material: metal, copper? brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: 46 cm tall [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

L'art mosan: Liège et son pays à l'époque romane du XIe au XIIIe siècle, Alleur: Éditions du Perron, 2007

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]; 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

KIK-IRPA, BALaT KIK-IRPA, 2024. Accessed: 2024-03-31 00:00:00. URL: https://balat.kikirpa.be/.