Bruges No. 5 / Brugge

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Scene Description: church opening hours, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church exterior

the main entrance to both upper and lower churches; the larger arch on the right leads up the stairs to the upper church; the left arch leads to an inner door on the left to the lower church

Scene Description: the main entrance to both upper and lower churches; the larger arch on the right leads up the stairs to the upper church; the left arch leads to an inner door on the left to the lower church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - side altar

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - side altar

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - side altar - detail

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the lower church: three-aisled basilica

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - south side

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: in the lower church; painted wood; church label suggests date ca. 1300

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: in the lower church; painted wood; church label suggests date ca. 1300

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: in the lower church; painted wood; church label suggests date ca. 1300

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - arcade

Scene Description: in the lower church; view of one of the arches of the south arcade from withing the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - arcade - tympanum

Scene Description: in the lower church; view of one of the arches of the south arcade from withing the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - arcade - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: in the lower church; view of one of the arches of the south arcade from withing the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - looking north

Scene Description: in the lower church; view from the south aisle across an arch of the south arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2016 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 20708BRU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Basiliek van het Heilig Bloed / Heilig-Bloedbasiliek / Basilique du Saint-Sang

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Blood

Church Location: Burg 13, 8000 Brugge, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 50 33 67 92

Country Name: Belgium

Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located in the Burg square

Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel / Malines-Brussels

Date: ca. 1134-1157?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Church Notes: Romanesque church built between 1134 and 1157; two chapels: upper and lower; upper chapel re-done in Gothic style in late-15thC; re-done in neo-Gothic 20thC;

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An entry for news regarding the 3 May procession at Brugges Saint-Sang in the Journal historique et littéraire of 1836 (t. III: 92) has an additional note on the ancient baptismal font of this church: "Les anciens fonts baptismaux attenants à ladite chapelle, seront rétablis dans leur état primitif. Ces fonts sont très-anciens; on assure même qu' ils ont servi à l'administration du sacrement de baptême d'après les anciens rites de l'Eglise". On-site notes: there is no baptismal font in either of the two churches; a local warden informed us that neither of the two churches perform the blessing of the water liturgy during Holy Week; instead they get their holy water from the cathedral. The lower church is a three-aisle basilica with two arcades of round arches that connect the north and south aisles to the nave; one of the arches in the south aisle has a tympanum on the south side with a carved scene of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan; it appears original of the 12th century. [NB: the news in the 1836 Journal [cf. supra] clearly states that the ancient font of the Chapelle [now Basilique] du Saint-Sang existed at the time and were about to be reinstated in the church ["seront rétablis dans leur état primitif"]. The local officers consulted in the Basilique during our 21 August 2016 visit claimed there was no knowledge of any font here -- interestingly an ancient baptismal font "in the museum at Bruges" was claimed to have been seen by "the Rev. Mr. Godwin", a font similar to one at the church of Bramshott, in Hampshire, and to the fonts at Winchester cathedral, St. Mary Bourne, etc., [i.e. Tournai fonts], in an report of a meeting of the Hampshire Field Club in May 1890, in The Hampshire Antiquary & Naturalist, vol 1 (1891): 79-80].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.208167, 3.226722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 12′ 29.4″ N, 3° 13′ 36.2″ E

UTM: 31U 515838 5672999