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

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

view of church exterior in context - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Staudt, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2008 by Wolfgang Staudt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_Of_Our_Lady_Bruges.jpg] [accessed 29 September 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 18thC (?) font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne Belcher, 2018

Image Source: digital photo taken 28 August 2010 by Anne Belcher

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: 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

view of font and cover

Scene Description: 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

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font in use

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne Belcher, 2018

Image Source: digital photo taken 28 August 2010 by Anne Belcher

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: 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

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 18thC (?) font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne Belcher, 2018

Image Source: digital photo taken 28 August 2010 by Anne Belcher

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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

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view of font cover - finial

Scene Description: 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
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