Antwerp No. 1 / Amberes / Antwerpen / Anvers

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fassade der Kathedrale Unserer Lieben Frau, Antwerpen, Provinz Antwerpen, Flandern, Belgien"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 April 2016 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antwerpen_Kathedraal_Onze_Lieve_Vrouw_Fassade_1.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. Main portal."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alvesgaspar, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2015 by Alvesgaspar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_Antwerp_July_2015-18a.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Surce caption: "Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp. Main portal."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alvesgaspar, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2015 by Alvesgaspar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_Antwerp_July_2015-18a.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "Voorportaal van de Kathedraal van Onze Lieve Vrouw van Antwerpen, België (1352-1521)."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 13 September 2010 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal_-_Antwerp_(2).JPG] [accesse 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior and interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Frans Hogenberg: The Calvinist Iconoclastic Riot of August 20, 1566 (Hamburg, Kunsthalle). Text: Nach wenigh Predication / Die Calvinische Religion / Das bildenssturmen fiengen an / Das nicht ein bildt davon bleib stan / Kap Monstrantz, kilch, auch die altar / und wess sonst dort vor handen war / Zerbrochen all in kurtzer stundt / Gleich gar vil leuten das ist kundt. Anno Dnj. M. D. LXVI XX Augusti"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image of a 1566 painting by Frans Hogenberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frans_Hogenberg_Bildersturm_1566.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Het onafgewerkte grotere koor voor de Antwerpse kathedraal. Geknipt uit de Vergilius Bononiensis kaart uit 1565."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital image 22 September 2011 of Vergilius Bononiensis' map of 1565 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nieuwe_werck.png] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal gezien vanop de Groenplaats."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ad Meskens, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 18 February 2009 by Ad Meskens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antwerpen_kathedraal02.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal gezien vanop de observatieverdieping van de KBC-toren (Boerentoren)."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ad Meskens, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph 18 February 2009 by Ad Meskens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antwerpen_olv-kathedraal2.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal (Antwerp)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ricardalovesmonuments, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2022 by Ricardalovesmonuments [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal_(Antwerp)_Innenraum_1.1.jpg] [accessed 6 February 2023]

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view of object

Scene Description: the re-purposed mortar

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph May 2024 from Axelle, at the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 2 May 2024)

view of object

Scene Description: the re-purposed mortar

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph May 2024 from Axelle, at the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 2 May 2024)

view of object in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "tuin van de dekenij" -- the object seen here in the left side of the image

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steenmeijer Architecten BVBA, 2017

Image Source: digital phototograph in Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal Antwerpen Beheersplan, 15 December 2017 [https://www.agvespa.be/sites/default/files/download-item/beheersplan_kathedraal_hs_1_-_7.pdf] [accessed 17 February 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24590ANT
Church/Chapel: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Groenplaats 21, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 3 213 99 51
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Antwerp, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located between the N1 (E) and the river Scheldt (W), about 50 km N of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Antwerpen
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Axelle of Info Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal for the photographs, and to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this object
Church Notes: present cathedral replaced earlier churches on the site; started 1352; finished 1521 [never completed]; gutted by fire 1533; damaged during the Calvinist Iconoclasm of 1566; raided 1794 during the French Revolution; restored 19thC; restored 1965-1993
[NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the medieval church(es) here]. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 26 August 2022) informs: "Reading the plan for the future conservation of the Antwerp cathedral, I read that the garden of deanery (adjacent to the cathedral) was modified in the second halve of the 19th century to accommodate for a statue and grotto in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes. Next to the statue, a late Romanesque font was installed. He cites his source as "Beheersplan Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal Antwerpen, Steenmeijer Architecten BVBA, 2017", and adds: "I found one picture of the garden showing the font. I have no further information about this font yet." [cf. infra] The full text of the "Beheetsplan" is publicly available [https://www.agvespa.be/sites/default/files/download-item/beheersplan_kathedraal_hs_1_-_7.pdf] [accessed 17 February 2023]; the reference to the font is on p. 64, and the photograph of the font in its new context outside the deanery is Afb.11, on page 20 of the plan. The said photograph shows the object in the background, next and to the left of the statue of St. Mary: a bucket-shaped stone base with decorated sides and some protrusions at the upper rim; it is raised on a plain cylindrical column that appears modern. We have no confirmation that this object was the original font of the cathedral [cf. infra] [NB: we have no other information on the original baptismal font of the medieval church here] The present font in the nave appears modern; it consists of a hemispherical basin of a round pedestal base it appears to be made of black(?) marble or a shiny limestone.] A further communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 2 May 2024) adds: "Today I received some pictures of this object. It is not a Romanesque baptismal font, as it is called in the conservation guidelines of the cathedral. I think it is a 15/16th century Mosan mortar, with 4 handles. It was broken, and it was repaired rather clumsily by enwrapping the basin in a pottery-style shroud."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.220556, 4.400556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 13′ 14″ N, 4° 24′ 2″ E
UTM: 31U 597808 5675284

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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