Moortsele
Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
Results: 11 records
animal - mammal - quadruped - passant - detail
Scene Description: the rear end of a quadruped's body, passant to the left, is discernible in the large fragment in the centre of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of font fragment in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 18 April 2022 by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 April 2022)
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Amanduskerk - Sint-Antoniusplein - Moortsele - Oosterzele - Oost-Vlaanderen - België"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spotter2, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 8 March 2018 by Spotter2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Amanduskerk_Moortsele_in_2018_(2).jpg] [accessed 20 April 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
information
Scene Description: Source: “Romaanse bouwkunst in het Land van Aalst” by Koenraad De Wolf, in Het Land van Aalst, tijdschrift van de geschiedkundige vereniging "Het Land van Aalst", jaargang LX, 2008, n°2, Page 130-131, 139
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Koenraad De Wolf, 2008
Image Source: digital image of an entry in Koenraad De Wolf's Romaanse bouwkunst in het Land van Aalst, Het Land van Aalst, tijdschrift van de geschiedkundige vereniging "Het Land van Aalst", jaargang LX, 2008, n°2]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23879MOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Amanduskerk / Parochiekerk Sint-Amandus
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Amand [aka Amandus]
Church Notes: church here documented 1126; replaced by 13thC church; modified 16th, 17th and 18thC; renovated 19thC
Church Address: Sint-Antoniusplein / Kloosterstraat 2, 9860 Oosterzele, Belgium
Site Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N42, S of highway E40/A10, in the municipality and 2-3 km NW of Osterzele, about 8 km SSE of Ghent city centre
Additional Comments: disused font / fragment of a font (fragments built into an outer wall of the present church)
Font Notes:
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Reported in “Romaanse bouwkunst in het Land van Aalst” by Koenraad De Wolf, in Het Land van Aalst, tijdschrift van de geschiedkundige vereniging "Het Land van Aalst", jaargang LX, 2008, n°2, Page 130-131, 139, as a number of fragments of a Romanesque Tournai baptismal font now built into the outer wall of Sint-Amanduskerk in Moortsele; part of quadruped's [a lion's] body is still discernible in one of the fragments.
In a communication exchange betwwen Pol Herman and Jean-Claude (e-mails of 19 and 20 April 2022) Ghislain wrote: "Quant aux fragments de la cuve de Moortsele, vos photographies confirment les dégâts occasionnés par le sablage agressif imposé à l'église vers 2000!"
In a communication exchange betwwen Pol Herman and Jean-Claude (e-mails of 19 and 20 April 2022) Ghislain wrote: "Quant aux fragments de la cuve de Moortsele, vos photographies confirment les dégâts occasionnés par le sablage agressif imposé à l'église vers 2000!"
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention, his photographs of the fragments and his help ind ocumenting this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 554827 5645567
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.959103, 3.780669
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 32.77″ N, 3° 46′ 50.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone