Jodoigne / Djodogne / Geldenaken

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10868JOD
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Médard / Sint-Medarduskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Location: 1370 Jodoigne, Brabant, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Brabant Wallon / Wallon Brabant, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located near Nivelles, 20 km S of Louvain, 40 SE of Brussels, 60 km NW of Liège
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège / Archidiocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Historical Region: Brabant et la Hesbaye
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
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: Jupille-sur-Meuse [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church here probably 11th or 12thC
Described in Ghislain (1986) as an exception to the more common type of Mosan font: this font and the one at Jupille [cf. Index entry] share some of the other characteristics, but do not have heads at the basin angles. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as fragments of 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; the fragments were dicovered in 1972 during excavations for the restoration of the church, buried under the central nave; Ghislain suggests the font may have been destroyed in the fires resulting from the wars of religion in 1568 and 1578; he describes the basin as circular with an arcade of round blind arches all around; the arches rest on well-rendered capitals, and there are trefoiled palmettes in the spandrels; fortunately a similar font has survived in better shape, the one from Jupille-sur-Meuse, which provides for a good sense of what this font looked like. Ghislain (ibid.) gives the location of the remaing fragments [one has disappeared] as "Presbytère" [i.e., the rectory/vicarage]. The BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), reports a stone baptismal font from the 18th century in this church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.721163, 4.868924
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 16.19″ N, 4° 52′ 8.12″ E
UTM: 31U 631921 5620484

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Number of Pieces: fragments
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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]; 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