Pervijze / Pervijse / Pervyse

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animal - mammal - lion - head - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: one of four such?

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the thick moulding that forms the lower base

Image Source: origin unknown -- received from Herman Declerck

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

human figure

Scene Description: on the sides and the angles of the square basin [now lost] -- the drawing here [probably by Michiel Maertens, in the Stadsarchief Diksmuide] may be an attempt to a reconstruction of the baptismal font at Pervijze

Image Source: digital image by Pol Herman of a file [by Michiel Maertens?] in the Stadsarchief Diksmuide

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 September 2021)

information

Scene Description: Emile Jacquemyn's "De herkomst van drie fragmenten van romaanse Doornikse doopvonten in het Gruuthusemuseum te Brugge", (Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis, Société d'Emulation, Jaargang 129, 1992 (3-4), page 247-252) -- the source includes an illustration [Afb. 1] with caption: "Basis van de romaanse doopvont uit Pervijze"; the original photograph [1920s?] shows a larger part of the lower base of the font as well as a portion of the pedestal upper base, the surface of which appears to be covered in a piping pattern

Image Source: digital image from Emile Jacquemyn's "De herkomst van drie fragmenten van romaanse Doornikse doopvonten in het Gruuthusemuseum te Brugge", (Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis, Société d'Emulation, Jaargang 129, 1992 (3-4), page 247-252)

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view of base - fragment

Image Source: origin unknown -- received from Herman Declerck

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pervijze, parochiekerk Sint-Niklaas en Sint-Katharina"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 May 2013 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pervijze,_parochiekerk_Sint-Niklaas_en_Sint-Katharina_oeg78495_foto2_2013-05-12_11.02.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2021]

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view of font - drawing

Scene Description: the drawing here [probably by Michiel Maertens, in the Stadsarchief Diksmuide] may be an attempt to a reconstruction of the baptismal font at Pervijze

Image Source: digital image by Pol Herman of a file [by Michiel Maertens?] in the Stadsarchief Diksmuide

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 3 September 2021)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font in the re-built church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Herman Declerck

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 April 2005)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font in the re-built church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: Photograph by Luc Coene, in www.stnicholascenter.org

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10814PER

Museum and Inventory Number: Gruuthuse Museum, Brugge/Bruges

Church/Chapel: [originally from Sint-Niklaas en Sint-Katharinakerk -- now in a museum]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas & St. Catherine

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for Pervijze church] Pervijzestraat, 8600 Diksmuide, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N35-N355-N302 confluence, in the municipality and 8-10 km NW of Diksmuide, roughly equidistant between Duinkerke (WSW) and Brugge {ENE)

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font? / Mosan font?

Cognate Fonts: decoration similar to that on the Zedelgem font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Herman Declerck, of www.geocities.com/pervijze, and to Pol Herman for the information on, and photographs of the fragments of this font

Church Notes: in the 1120s a church (Sint-Katharinakerk) and a chapel (St Denis) existed here, both damaged in the Wars of Religion; in the 1890s Sint-Katharinakerk was demolished and the other re-built and consecrated in 1896; almost destroyed by German bombing; re-built 1923; restored 1950 after some damage in WWII

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A picture of it can be found in Emile Jacquemyn's "De herkomst van drie fragmenten van romaanse Doornikse doopvonten in het Gruuthusemuseum te Brugge", (Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis, Société d'Emulation, Jaargang 129, 1992 (3-4), page 247-252). Pol Herman, in an e-mail communication to BSI [5 September 2021] wrote: " The late senator Michiel Maertens studied this baptismal font, and was preparing an article. Unfortunately he died in 2008 before completing his work. His family donated his documents to the archives of the city of Diksmuide, where I was allowed to read them. See front page of his files in annex. During his research, he collected a wealth of information on baptismal fonts of the "Tournai" type, because, as a politician sitting in the senate, he was able to convince the Library of the Belgian Governement to help him. Thanks to his political connections, he was able to access public libraries worldwide. Michiel Maertens was of the opinion that the font was destroyed during the calvinistic iconoclastic fury of 1566. But he found no additional information about the font "of Pervijze". Out of respect for senator Maertens, I would be pleased if you mentionned his name as author." The font is noted in Ghislain (1986) as a fragment of a transitional square font [between Tournai and Mosan] with figures at the angles. Described in Drake (2002) as a baptimal font of the Tournai group: "Only at Zedelgen and Zillebeke and on the fragment from Pervijse are the vertical bands replaced by corner ornament, masks at Zillebeke, figures on the other two." The surviving fragment is a part of the lower base, showing the circle pattern where the broad central shaft fit, and the diagonally striated moulding [probably a very broad rope moulding] around it, with heads at 90-degree angles. The fragment is now [2005] in the Gruuthuse Museum, Brugge/Bruges. [NB: the present font in Sint-Niklaas en Sint-Katharinakerk is a modern one, probably dating to the 1923 re-building of the church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.073478, 2.795361

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 24.52″ N, 2° 47′ 43.3″ E

UTM: 31U 485663 5658016

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Number of Pieces: fragment

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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"]