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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by G. Focant

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B02: animal - mammal - lion - couchant-gardant - 2

Scene Description: one of two sides of the basin with this motif

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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B03: animal - mammal - lion - couchant-gardant - 2

Scene Description: the left side; the second of two sides with this motif

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon? - 2

Scene Description: one of two issuing from an inverted lion's mask

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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B05: animal - mammal - lion - head - inverted - monster stemming from mouth

R01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 4

Scene Description: on the spandrels of the upper surface

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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R02: design element - motifs - circle - concentric

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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view of basin

Scene Description: before it was re-constructed

Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Deveseleer

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: before it was re-constructed

Image Source: B&W photograph by J. Deveseleer

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the strange monsters (dragon?), reversed in this photograph

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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Scene Description: two sides of the basin are visible: on the left two couchant-regardant lions; on the right, the 'dragons'

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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Scene Description: the second side containing a pair of lions couchant-regardant; similar though not identical to the other side

Image Source: B&W photograph by G. Focant

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Scene Description: a detail from the baptismal font at Zedelgem showing a similar monster to the one on the Soignies font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10725SOI

Church/Chapel: Collégiale Saint-Vincent

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N6, SSW of Brussels [Coordinates: 50° 34′ 0″ N, 4° 4′ 0″ E 50.566667, 4.066667]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Documented in Deveseleer, Ghislain, Reynders and Vereecke (2003). Described and illustrated in Drake (2004). The fragments of a Romanesque baptismal font that had been built into the north wall of the Collégiale Saint-Vincent; the fragments were recovered, cleaned, restored and remounted on a modern five-support base as a font. The basin is of the "table-top" type with carving on the sides. Drake (ibid.) notes: "the two identical sides display crouching lions, crups to the centre and the heads at the corners turned to face the viewer", and, like most Tournai fonts, the identical sides are adjacent. On the two dissimilar sides, Drake (ibid.) notes, "one also displays a pair of beasts, heads again at the corners, and turned to face the viewer […]". Drake points out that these beasts are original, with no others like known on Tournai fonts anywhere, suggesting that they may dragons, issuing out of an inverted lion's mask. Drake (ibid.) compares the 'creatures' on the fourth side to another such found in a spandrel of tge Tournai font at Zedelgem. The upper surface of the basin is decorated with concentric circles and pairs of palmettes and flkeur-de-lis like motifs. Three strange-looking creatures (?) appear on the visible side: they consist of an octopus-like head with two sides or tails that curl in the fashion of the Romanesque dragon tails, but end in fish fins; they are probably a rendition of mermen, male sirens, but lack the more commonplace human torso, or the human features that would help one decide whether they are sirens at all, and if so, male or female.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 26.5 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 24 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 81 x 81 cm*

REFERENCES

Deveseller, Jacques, La cuve baptismale romane de la collégiale Saint-Vincent de Soignies: son sauvetage et sa place dans la production tournaisienne du XIIe siècle, Soignies: Musée du Chapitre, 2003

Drake, Colin Stuart., "The discovery and saving of the Tournai font at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Vincent, Soignies, Belgium", 84 (2004), Antiquaries Journal, 2004, pp. 371-380; r["References"]