Ghent No. 3 / Gand / Gandavum / Gante / Gent

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Scene Description: church opening hours

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Michielskerk in de 1e helft van de 17e eeuw - Afbeelding uit Flandria Illustrata (1641) [...] Antonius Sanderius".

Image Source: illustration in Antonius Sanderus' Flandria illustrata (1641) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint_michielskerk_Gent.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-70-1923

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: undated B&W photograph, cliché B139591 in KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?objnr=55086] [accessed 22 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: 1918 B&W photograph in KIK-IRPA, cliché F000353 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=F000353&objnr=55086&lang=en-GB] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: B&W photograh ca. 1914-1918 in KIK-IRPA, cliché B143654 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=B143654&objnr=55086&lang=en-GB] [accessed 22 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: 1918 B&W photograph in KIK-IRPA, cliché F000356 [http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=F000356&objnr=55086&lang=en-GB] [accessed 22 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - north aisle - looking west

Scene Description: the baptistery is the far [west] end of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2015 by Peter Blanchard

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font cover - crane - detail

Scene Description: the large round panel has a scene of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: a serpent climbs up to the orb-and-Cross finial; this one is represented with a forked tongue, without the apple

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 20074GHE

Church/Chapel: Sint-Michielskerk / Parochiekerk Sint-Michiels (RC)

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Sint-Michielsplein, 9000 Gent, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 9 234 28 69

Country Name: Belgium

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

Directions to Site: Located in the old trade centre of Ghent, by the Korenmarkt

Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Gent / Diocèse de Gand

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Blanchard for his photograph of the modern font here

Church Notes: chapel-of-ease dedicated to St. Michael documented by 1105; twice destroyed by fire in 12thC; became independent parish in mid-12thC; present building mid-15thC but completed 1528

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

******************************************* PICS IN THE LUMIX FILE **************************************** The present baptismal font in use here is modern, of 1834, and is located at the west end of the north aisle; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin made of grey marble decorated with a gadrooned pattern on the underbowl, raised on a stone base made of four scroll ribs, and a square grey marble lower base. Imposing brass font cover with multiple mouldings and a radiant orb-and-Latin cross finial; the lower side decorated with a band of floral crosses; beautifully-rendered long serpent wraps around the cover sides and looks onto to the finial. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font(s) here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.053611, 3.719167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 3′ 13″ N, 3° 43′ 9″ E

UTM: 31U 550405 5656033