Blaregnies / Blargnîyes
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Scene Description: the composite font, of which the lower base has survived from the Romanesque original font here -- NB: the source does not provide a date for the photograph; the damaged font and surroundings suggests the aftermath of a fire, war... Where the scotia is in the basin side a metal girdle has been applied
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Image Source: B&W photograph by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A033253] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the composite font, of which the lower base has survived from the Romanesque original font here
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Brigitte Ugeux; in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M91167] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: B&W photograph [1914-1918?] KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B015540] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blaregnies_051001_(2).jpg] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Brigitte Ugeux; in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M91165] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: B&W photograph by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays, in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A033254] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated - 4
![at the corners of the lower base that has survived from the Romanesque original font here [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150314026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: at the corners of the lower base that has survived from the Romanesque original font here [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken by Brigitte Ugeux; in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M91167] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19759BLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, base only
Font Date: ca. 1150-1155?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font / affiliation Beauchevain [Ghislain]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Géry de Blaregnies
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Géry (Djèri, Gau, Gaugericus, Gorik, bishop of Cambrai)
Church Address: Rue d'Aulnois 3, 7040 Quévy, Belgium
Site Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N543-N544 crossroads, in the municipality of Quévy, about 12 km SSW of Mons
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrais
Additional Comments: composite font (only the lower base has survived from the original font here)
Font Notes:
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Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a fragment of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1155; this surviving fragment of the original font has been integrated into a composite font, "un assemblage hétéroclite dont seule la basse carrée est romane", decorated at the angles with a large "griffe lancéolé à la nervure médiane".
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.356674, 3.898098
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 21′ 24.02″ N, 3° 53′ 53.15″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * the total height of the composite font as given in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)
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, catalogue no. 5, p. 55