Pondrome / Pondrôme
Image copyright © Yvon Barbazon, 2015
Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 December 2023)
Results: 21 records
BH01: human figure - male - head - wearing head-band
Scene Description: profile view
BH01: human figure - male - head - wearing head-band
BH02: human figure - male - head
Scene Description: notice the locked crossbar of the font cover above the head
BH03: human figure - male - head
BH04: human figure - male - head
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: as some other fonts in this group the arches at the extreme ends do not rest on an outer column
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B012963]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: the large leaf motif on the underbowl is well preserved beneath the right head here -- notice the crack right through the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B012963]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4
Scene Description: much eroded now, but faintly discernible at the left corner here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B074804]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B074804]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
design element - motifs - palmette - trefoiled
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade; most of them damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1910 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B012963]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Focimex [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97289]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Focimex [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A092338]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1972 by Focimex [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M97291]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B074804]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [source N/A
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A092348]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Yvon Barbazon, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2015 by Yvon Barbazon
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 December 2023)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Yvon Barbazon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2015 by Yvon Barbazon
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 13 December 2023)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B074805]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font cover - lock - detail
Scene Description: the sliding crossbar locked
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B074806]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font cover - lock - detail
Scene Description: the sliding crossbar unlocked
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1945 by the Commissariat général à la Protection aérienne passive [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A092349]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
INFORMATION
FontID: 10811PON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien / Sint-Cosme en Damiaankerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Church Location: Rue de la Bascule 4, 5574 Pondrôme, Beauraing, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 3 km ESE of Beauraing, E of the E411, about 25 km SSE of Dinan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Namur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1155-1160?
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 Pol Herman for his help documenting this font, and to Yvon Barbazon [yvon.barbazon@skynet.be] for his photograph of the font and cover
Church Notes: present church 1833; replaced an earlier building
Font Notes:
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Noted in Ghislain (1986) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the Mosan-namurois type, its decoration similar to that on the fonts at Wauthier-Braine, Opprebais, Grande-Enneille and Villers-la-Ville. Noted in illustrated in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) "cuve à quatre Têtes d'angles calcaire viséen [...] 1101-1200". 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. 1155-1160; the sides are decorated with a blind arcade of round arches resting on full columns with capitals and bases; four human heads at 90-degree angles on the basin sides, one broken off; the base consisting of a broad central shaft with four slender outer colonnettes, a quadrangular moulded lower base with lanceolated leafs at the angles. Evidence of font cover anchor. Ghislain (ibid.) remarks on similarities with the fonts at Flostoy and Wellin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50,09967, 5,00883
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 5' 59" N, 5° 0' 32" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen)
Font Shape: round (mounted) (with heads)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm**
Basin Total Height: 40 cm**
Height of Central Column: 36 cm**
Height of Side Columns: 36 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 95.5 cm* / 95 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: dome with articulated cross finial
REFERENCES
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]; fig. 8, 11, 12
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