Lessines / Lessen / Lèssine / Lessinia

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inscription - partial

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inscription - partial

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inscription - partial

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lessines_E1bJPG.jpg] [accessed 11 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Lessines ca. 1649

Image Source: engraving in Johannes Blaeu's 'Het steden-Boek' (Amsterdam, ca.1649) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Lessines_050918_(29).jpg] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking north

Scene Description: across the nave and two aisles

Image Source: digital photograph taken in September 2012 by Johna Bakker [www.panoramio.com/photo/79181420] [accessed 11 January 2014]

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view of font - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Pierre[ Lessines] [...] fonts baptismaux, objet [fragment] [...] côté avec personnages et dauphins"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039416] [accessed 6 September 2021]

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view of font - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Pierre[ Lessines] [...] fonts baptismaux, objet [fragment] [...] côté avec têtes humaines"

Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039416] [accessed 6 September 2021]

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view of font - fragment

Scene Description: now built into the exterior south wall of the church

Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 September 2021)

view of font - fragment - replica copy

Source caption: "Bas relief à sujets allégoriques provenant d'anciens fonts baptismaux et encastré dans l'angle méridional de la façade principal de l'église Saint-Pierre de Lessines [...] moulage[sculpture], bas-relief[sculpture] [...] Inventarisnummer: 1320-1 [...] Original conservé à Lessines, église Saint-Pierre."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bas relief à sujets allégoriques provenant d'anciens fonts baptismaux et encastré dans l'angle méridional de la façade principal de l'église Saint-Pierre de Lessines [...] moulage[sculpture], bas-relief[sculpture] [...] Inventarisnummer: 1320-1 [...] Original conservé à Lessines, église Saint-Pierre."

Image Source: digital image of a [1845?-1913] B&W photograph [cliché B012958], in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/20062026] [accessed 22 September 2021]

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view of font - fragment - replica copy

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bas relief à sujets allégoriques provenant d'anciens fonts baptismaux et encastré dans l'angle méridional de la façade principal de l'église Saint-Pierre de Lessines [...] moulage[sculpture], bas-relief[sculpture] [...] Inventarisnummer: 1320-2 [...] Original conservé à Lessines, église Saint-Pierre."

Image Source: digital image of a [1845?-1913] B&W photograph [cliché B012959], in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/20062027] [accessed 22 September 2021]

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view of font - fragment - replica copy

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bas relief à sujets allégoriques provenant d'anciens fonts baptismaux et encastré dans l'angle méridional de la façade principal de l'église Saint-Pierre de Lessines [...] moulage[sculpture], bas-relief[sculpture] [...] Inventarisnummer: 1320-3 [...] Original conservé à Lessines, église Saint-Pierre."

Image Source: digital image of a [1845?-1913] B&W photograph [cliché B012960], in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/20062028] [accessed 22 September 2021]

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view of font - fragment - replica copy

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bas relief à sujets allégoriques provenant d'anciens fonts baptismaux et encastré dans l'angle méridional de la façade principal de l'église Saint-Pierre de Lessines [...] moulage[sculpture], bas-relief[sculpture] [...] Inventarisnummer: 1320-4 [...] Original conservé à Lessines, église Saint-Pierre."

Image Source: digital image of a [1845?-1913] B&W photograph [cliché B012960], in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/20062029] [accessed 22 September 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern [19thC] font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative in BALaT KIRK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039443] [accessed 22 September 2021]

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view of fragment

Scene Description: showing the stratigraphy of Tournai limestone

Image Source: digital image edited by Pol Herman [source unknown]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 18997LES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise décanale Saint-Pierre / Dekenale Sint-Pieterskerk te Lessen / Kerk Sint-Pieter van Lessen

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Parv. Saint-Pierre 13, 7860 Lessines, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of the N57 and N42, NNE of Ath, WSW of Brussels

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: Built into the bottom corner of exterior, S facade

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?

Cognate Fonts: the font at Lessines? [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font and his photograph of the fragment

Church Notes: original church ca.1075; re-built in the late-12thC; re-built after 11 May 1940 fire caused by German incendiary bombs; re-built; re-consecrated in 1952

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10039416] [accessed 6 September 2021] as the fragment of a former baptismal font later built into an exterior wall of the present church. The presence of a human figure in an arch is noted in Sid Pubben's De Fontibus Salvatoris: Over herkomst, gebruik en iconografie van een twaalfde-eeuws doopvont in Maastricht en Brussel [https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/123456789/8072/Pubben%2C_S.L.C.F._1.pdf?sequence=1] [accessed 6 September 2021], who refers to the KIK-IRPA entry and image above. The restoration of a baptismal font in this church is mentioned among the damaged items in the 1940 German bombings and restored in 1989 [source: Open Churches https://openchurches.eu/nl/gebouwen/saint-pierre-lessines [accessed 6 September 2021]. An e-mail communication from Pol Herman informs that " Plaster moldings had been made from the Lessines font, around the year 1920. They are documented in : Rousseau, H., Catalogue des moulages [Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire], 2e ed., 1926, p. 113. [...] You should find them in Inventaire du canton de Lessines by E.J. Soil de Moriamé (1926) [...] Some weeks ago, the museum curator confirmed me that the moldings were lost in 1930. [...] You can find them on BALaT " A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 7 September 2022) suggests a reading of a partial inscription that decorates the arch above a figure on fragments of the medievak font: "PANTOCRATOR". He further points to similarities between this and the fragment of the Bruges No. 13 font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 42' 43.59" N, N 3° 49' 52.23" E

UTM: 31U 558830 5618649

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

Font Shape: fragment

Notes on Measurements: the measurements for the fragment are 10 x 15 cm in KIK-IRPA [cf. FontNotes]

INSCRIPTION

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