Bruges No. 5 / Brugge
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view of church exterior
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child
Scene Description: in the lower church; painted wood; church label suggests date ca. 1300
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view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child
Scene Description: in the lower church; painted wood; church label suggests date ca. 1300
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view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child
Scene Description: in the lower church; painted wood; church label suggests date ca. 1300
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of church interior - chancel - south side
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the lower church: three-aisled basilica
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view of church interior - altar - side altar - detail
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - altar - side altar
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - nave - detail
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - altar - side altar
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - pulpit
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - nave - south side
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the upper church: 20th-century neo-Gothic
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20708BRU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2016-08-21
Font Date: ca. 1134-1157?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Basiliek van het Heilig Bloed / Heilig-Bloedbasiliek / Basilique du Saint-Sang
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Blood
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;
Church Address: Burg 13, 8000 Brugge, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 50 33 67 92
Site Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Burg square
Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel / Malines-Brussels
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 515838 5672999
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.208167, 3.226722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 12′ 29.4″ N, 3° 13′ 36.2″ E