Jupille / Djoupèye / Iopilla / Jopila / Jopilla / Jupille in Liège / Jupille-sur-Meuse / Juppille

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

Scene Description: all around -- notice the large holes and damage related to the hardware of an old font cover

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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 B089661]

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette - trefoiled

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "De l'église primitive ne subsiste plus que l'épaisse tour carrée occidentale, en moellons de grès et datant de l'époque médiévale.Le vaisseau à trois nefs de cinq travées scandées par des colonnes à chapiteaux toscans, et le choeur à abside semi-circulaire ont été reconstruits en 1835 selon le style néo-classique.Brique et pierre.Signalons que la base de l'abside est en moellons de grès, remplois probables de matériaux anciens."

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font was restored to the church in 2001

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the rectory/vicarage gardens in 1945 -- Source caption: "cuve à décor d'arcatures datant de la première moitié du XIIIème siècle de style roman dont la hauteur est de 40 cm sur fût de colonne datant du XVIème siècle de style gothique plus en place."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10867JUP
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Amand / Sint-Amanduskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Amand [aka Amandus]
Church Location: En Mi-la-Ville, 24 – 4020 Jupille/Meuse (Liège), Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located since 1977 in the city of Liège, formerly a separate municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the church since 2001 [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1155-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] / 16th century[base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: The font fragments at Jodoigne
Noted and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [cliché B089661], taken in 1945, which shows the font in the "jardin du presbytère" [i.e., rectory or vicarage garden] in 1945; the font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a blind arcade of round arches all around, with trefoiled palmettes in the spandrels; the supporting columns of the arches have capitals and bases; at the time this basin, dated in the source to 1201-1250, was mounted on a round pedestal base decorated with nested chevron pattern, dated in the source to 1501-1600. Described and illustrated in Ghislain (1986) as an exception to the more common type of Mosan font: this font and the remainning fragments of the font at Jodoigne [cf. Index entry] share some of the other characteristics, but do not have heads at the basin angles; the caption under the illustration in Ghislain notes that the font was located earlier in the "presbytère" [cf. supra]. Listed in Drake (2002) as a variant of the Mosan type: "made of the same calcaire bleu de Meuse and thus probably a variant of the standard Mosan fonts, taking the 'arcade only' decoration onto a circular bowl but without salient heads. The bowl is shallower and the bottom curves down in two steps to meet the shaft. The arches, supported on fully tectonic columns, reach to just below the rim and stand on a raised narrow band set some way up of the curved section, giving depth to the arcade". Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160, and similar to the font of Jodoigne, of which only fragments have survived. Ghislain (ibid.) informs that the font was restored to the church in 2001, and remarks its similarities with the said fragments, and the small proportions of the basins of the fonts at Archennes and Baijot. The upper rim of the basin shows drilled holes related to the hardware of an earlier font cover.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 686142 5613879

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm**
Basin Depth: 29 cm**
Basin Total Height: 39 cm**
Notes on Measurements: ** Ghislain (2009: 158)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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"]