Boussu / Bossut / Boussu-dlé-Mont / Boussut / Bussut / Bussuth / Buxutum
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - 24
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Brigitte Ugeux; in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M93659] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the upper surface of the basin, now much eroded, if discernible at all
view of basin
Scene Description: notice the damaged areas but also the metal staple for the anchorage of the old font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Brigitte Ugeux; in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M93659] [http://balat.kikirpa.be] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Boussu (Belgique), l'église Saint-Géry (XVII-XIXe siècle)."
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:Boussu_050817_(23).jpg] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Boussu (Belgique), la maison communale, l'ancien orphelinat, la cour de Justice de Paix et l'église St-Géry."
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:Boussu_050817_(32).jpg] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church interior - monument
![Source caption: "le mausolée Renaissance de Jean Hennin-Liétard, comte de Boussu et d'Anne de Bourgogne son épouse (Sculpteur: Jacques du Broeucq - XVIe siècle)" [NB: this monument is inside the funerary chapel of the "seigneurs de Boussu"; the original chapel dates from the 12thC, but was re-built in the 16thC -- the old font basin is now kept in this chapel]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150314031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "le mausolée Renaissance de Jean Hennin-Liétard, comte de Boussu et d'Anne de Bourgogne son épouse (Sculpteur: Jacques du Broeucq - XVIe siècle)" [NB: this monument is inside the funerary chapel of the "seigneurs de Boussu"; the original chapel dates from the 12thC, but was re-built in the 16thC -- the old font basin is now kept in this chapel]
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:Boussu_JPG00c.jpg] [accessed 14 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 19760BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Géry
Church Patron Saints: St. Géry (Djèri, Gau, Gaugericus, Gorik, bishop of Cambrai)
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut / Henegouwen, Wallonie / Wallonne
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km from Mons, 15 km from the French border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrais
Font Location in Church: inside the funerary chapel of the "seigneurs de Boussu"
Date: ca. 1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: present church 17thC
Font Notes:
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Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the surving basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1160; the basin had been built into one of the walls of the church, from which it was removed in 1969, and installed in the funerary chapel; the basin is square with a round inner basin, at the mouth of which is a faint decoration of foliage; the outer sides of the basin are decorated with a blind arcade of round arches; there is a metal staple in a spandrels of the basin opening, the spandrels themselves being decorated with foliage; Ghislain (ibid.) remarks on detail similarities with the fonts at Mercken (M.R.A.H., Bruxelles), Saint-Sevérin-en-Condroz, Achêne, etc.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.45, 3.783
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 27′ 0″ N, 3° 46′ 58.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 50-51.5 cm**
Basin Depth: 27 cm**
Basin Total Height: 43 cm* / 43 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 74 cm* / 68 x 69 x 73 x 76 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * as given in KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) / ** Ghislain (2009)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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