Bouvignes No. 2 / Bouvignes-sur-Meuse / Bovegne

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2009 by Dorian Claeys [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouvignes4.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Construite vers 1200 et consacrée en 1217 par Thierry, évêque de Livonie et suffragant de Liège, cette église de style roman connut plusieurs destructions et transformations. Au XVe siècle, elle fut agrandie et transformée en style ogival. En 1554, elle fut incendiée par les troupes françaises de Henri II? Vers 1770, elle fut l'objet de nouvelles transformations pour satisfaire au goût du style Renaissance et néo-classique. Elle fut fortement endommagée en 1914. Les restaurations de 1924 par l'architecte Henri Vaes, d'Orval, tentèrent de lui redonner l'aspect qu'elle avait avant 1554. En 1976-1977, on proceda à la réfection de la toiture du clocher et l'intérieur fut réaménagé par l'architecte François Bonaert, de Bruxelles."

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1942 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B034064]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: a baptismal font displayed at the Paris Exposition of 1937

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the present font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B0043850]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: marble stoup of the 17th century; height: 119 cm

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1975 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M229222]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19791BOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Lambert

Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]

Church Location: Place du Baillage, 5500 Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, Dinant, Belgium -- Tél: +32 82 22 33 25

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located on the N17, in the municipality of Dinant, about 27 km from Namur

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: inside the church, in a chapel on the S side of the chancel

Century and Period: 16th century(mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: original church 12thC, consecrated 1217;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Among the Documents inédits relatifs à l'histoire de la province de Namur, gathered and annotated by Jules Borgnet in the Cartulaire de la comune de Bouvignes published in Namur in 1862, is a document dated 19 may 1565 that bears the heading: "Acte par lequel les mambours de l'église de Bouvignes et des Lieux pieux vendent une rente en épeautre due à la Commune table, dans le but de se procurer les sommes nécessaires pour la restauration de l église"; it makes reference to a letter issued by "monsieur le révérendissime évesque de Namur [...] pour aider à restaurer et rédiffier la paovre et désolée église de la dicte ville, arse et consommée par le feuz des ennemis françois"; the editor of the cartulaire specifies that the destruction of the church had not been total, and a restoration had been going on since 1550, i.e., fifteen years before the episcopal missive; the most relevant detail however, is a transaction recorded between 1556 and 1559: "On achète à un bourgeois de Dinant, tailleur de pierres, la pierre des fonts baptismaux, pour 5 livres 12 sols 6 den". Presumably the font was made after the acquisition of the stone, and installed in this church. The present font in this church, located in a chapel on the south side of the chancel, is made of stone, and consists of a moulded octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base and a square lower base; it appears modern, but the basin could be 16th-century by its design. The dome-shaped metal font cover, reportedly of the 16th century, has an orb-and-cross finial. The font and its cover are listed and illustrated in the BALaT database [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B043850]; the font with date in the 16th century, the cover dated to the 19th century. A baptismal font from Bouvignes, made by the Dinanderies A. Maudoux, was exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1937. A holy-water stoup in this church is identified in the BALaT [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M229222] as 17th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.272427, 4.897125

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 16′ 20.74″ N, 4° 53′ 49.65″ E

UTM: 31U 635187 5570643

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: dome-shaped with orb-and-cross finial