Bruges No. 10 / Bruges

Image copyright © Anne Belcher, 2018
Image and permission received from the author via Colin Hinson
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view of church exterior - nave
view of church exterior in context - east view
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
view of font and cover in context
view of font and cover in context
view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: armorial device missing part of the right shield device -- the 18thC (?) font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne Belcher, 2018
Image Source: digital photo taken 28 August 2010 by Anne Belcher
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Colin Hinson
INFORMATION
FontID: 21822BRU
Church/Chapel: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk / Notre Dame
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Mariastraat, 8000 Brugge, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located at the corner of Gruuthusestraat and Marianstraat, S of the old town centre, N of the Minnerwaterpark
Ecclesiastic Region: Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel / Malines-Brussels
Date: ca. 1270-1280?
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne Belcher and Colin Hinson for the photographs of the 18thC (?) font in this church
Church Notes: 13th (1270-1280), 14th, 15thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two fonts now in this church; the present font in use consists of a square basin on a cylindrical pedestal base, both of bluish-green marble with colourful decorations on both parts; a secon font, disused now, consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with a pattern of stylised ribs all around, raised on a slender pedestal base decorated with a fluted pattern, and a moulde lower base repeating the decorative pattern on the basin; the whole in dark marble. It has a campaniform metal cover decorated with ar armorial device of two shields, theright one missing parts of it, two ring handles with drapery, and a complex finial that includes a lamb, a horizontally laid cross, a closed book, foliage, etc. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this late-13th century church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.204722,
3.224444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 12′ 17″ N,
3° 13′ 28″ E
UTM: 31U 515680 5672615