Ghent No. 2 / Gand / Gandavum / Gante / Gent

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: "granite font (stupidly enclosed in a glass globe painted blue), in which Charles V. was baptised, while held in the arms of Margaret of York" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: "granite font (stupidly enclosed in a glass globe painted blue), in which Charles V. was baptised, while held in the arms of Margaret of York" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2016 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 14570GHE

Church/Chapel: Sint-Baakskathedraal

Church Patron Saints: St. Bavo [aka Allowin, Baaf, Bavo of Ghent, Bavon, Bavonius]

Church Location: Sint-Baafsplein, 9000 Gent, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 9 269 20 45

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located on Sint-Baafsplein

Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Gent / Diocèse de Gand

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept

Date: ca. 1500?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Gothic

Church Notes: originally a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist in 942 (?); later a Romanesque church of 1038 (?); expanded to a Gothic building that became cathedral in 1559 and was completed in 1569 (?)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Walker (1883) mentions a "granite font (stupidly enclosed in a glass globe painted blue), in which Charles V. was baptised, while held in the arms of Margaret of York".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.052761, 3.728584

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 3′ 9.94″ N, 3° 43′ 42.9″ E

UTM: 31U 551066 5655945

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

REFERENCES

Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; r["References"]