Ghent No. 4 / Gand / Gandavum / Gante / Gent

Results: 16 records

view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: seen from the Emile Braunplein

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 April 2013 by Wernervc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E._Braunplein_3.JPG] [accessed 22 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by Jiel Beaumadier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Niklaaskerk1.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - east view

Source caption: "Sint-Niklaaskerk te Gent, vanuit Belfort. Links, Sint-Michielskerk. Gevels op Koornmarkt zichtbaar, ook achtergevel Borluutsteen in huizenblok rechts van St.-Niklaaskerk. In de verte rechts, barokke gevel en schip van Karmelietenkerk (Burgstr.)." / "Gand, Belgique: égllise Saint-Nicolas, vue du beffroi. Au fond à gauche: église Saint-Michel. L'antique façade du Borluutsteen est visible au milieu du pâté de maisons en bas à droite. L'église baroque au loin à droite est l'église des carmes de la Burgstaat."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Niklaaskerk te Gent, vanuit Belfort. Links, Sint-Michielskerk. Gevels op Koornmarkt zichtbaar, ook achtergevel Borluutsteen in huizenblok rechts van St.-Niklaaskerk. In de verte rechts, barokke gevel en schip van Karmelietenkerk (Burgstr.)." / "Gand, Belgique: égllise Saint-Nicolas, vue du beffroi. Au fond à gauche: église Saint-Michel. L'antique façade du Borluutsteen est visible au milieu du pâté de maisons en bas à droite. L'église baroque au loin à droite est l'église des carmes de la Burgstaat."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2007 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gent_Sint-Niklaaskerk.JPG] [accessed 22 October 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a glass slide taken by Godfrey Bingley between 1884 and 1913 University of Leeds Digital Library Archive [http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/11955/] [accessed 5 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing [https://library.leeds.ac.uk/terms]

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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 church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - St. George or St. Michael and dragon

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: with the holy-water reservoir in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: with the holy-water reservoir and Paschal candle in view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the metal wall-mounted crane is partially visible on the left; the crane allows the sideways movement of the font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

view of font cover - finial

the orb-and-cross finial is enhanced here with the tempting Serpent with the apple in its mouth, a motif found in other font covers in this area

Scene Description: the orb-and-cross finial is enhanced here with the tempting Serpent with the apple in its mouth, a motif found in other font covers in this area

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 20075GHE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Sint-Niklaaskerk / Parochiekerk Sint-Niklaas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Cataloniëstraat, 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 Koernmarket, in the old town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Gent / Diocèse de Gand

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: original church Romanesque; replaced by 13thC Scheldt Gothic building; expanded 14th-15thC; restored 20thC

Font Notes: Click to view

The University of Leeds Digital Library Archive [http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/11955/] [accessed 5 September 2016] has an image catalogued as "Font, St Nicholas [church], Ghent" of a glass slide taken by Godfrey Bingley between 1884 and 1913; unfortunately the image shows a church interior that does not seem to correspond to the present Sint-Niklaaskerk interior, and no font evident. On-site notes: the present font in this church is relatively modern, perhaps 17th- or 18th-century, made chiefly of veined pinkish marble; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a dadrooned pattern on the underbowl, raised on a round baluster-type pedestal base and a small square lower base. Brass moulded font cover with orb-and-cross finial, a serpent with an apple in its mouth surrounding the orb, a motif found uin other such finials in this area; there is a wall-mounted metal crane to swing the cover open sideways. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Romanesque church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.053889, 3.722778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 3′ 14″ N, 3° 43′ 22″ E

UTM: 31U 550658 5656066