Hove nr. Antwerp
Image copyright © Joeri Mertens, 2015
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Results: 13 records
animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: patly eroded on some of the sides
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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design element - architectural - column - columns - with capitals and bases - 5
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the capitals of the underbowl
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: on the corner sides of the lower base; much damaged now
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - spiral
Scene Description: the former decoration on the upper side of the basin top, around the inner basin opening, is very eroded now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ludovic Hellemans, 1095
Image Source: digital image of content in Ludovic Hellemans' De romaanse doopvont in de Sint-Laurentiuskerk te Hove: oeroude symbolen in middeleeuwse iconograpfie (Hove: Uitgave van de gemeentelijke Heemkundige Kring "De Markgraaf", 1985) [DE ROMAANSE DOOPVONT.pdf] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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symbol - floral - fleur-de-lis
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Afb 3. Afbeeldingen van dieren op doopvont te Hove. 3a. Drie dieren, waarbij tussen twee tegenover elkaar staande dieren een “fleur-de-lis” of levensbloem. Komt op twee aan elkaar palende zijwanden voor."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ludovic Hellemans, 1095
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ludovic Hellemans' De romaanse doopvont in de Sint-Laurentiuskerk te Hove: oeroude symbolen in middeleeuwse iconograpfie (Hove: Uitgave van de gemeentelijke Heemkundige Kring "De Markgraaf", 1985) [DE ROMAANSE DOOPVONT.pdf] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Afb 3. Afbeeldingen van dieren op doopvont te Hove. 3b. Drie achter elkaar lopende dieren met overdreven groot mannelijk geslachtsorgaan.
Komt voor op twee andere aan elkaar palende zijwanden voor."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ludovic Hellemans, 1095
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ludovic Hellemans' De romaanse doopvont in de Sint-Laurentiuskerk te Hove: oeroude symbolen in middeleeuwse iconograpfie (Hove: Uitgave van de gemeentelijke Heemkundige Kring "De Markgraaf", 1985) [DE ROMAANSE DOOPVONT.pdf] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hove Hove KH"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joeri Mertens, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 June 2015 by Joeri Mertens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hove_Hove_KH_(1)_-_308940_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hove Hove KH"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joeri Mertens, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 June 2015 by Joeri Mertens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hove_Hove_KH_(2)_-_308941_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M086469] taken in 1972 by Antoon De Vijlder, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/63207] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the restored font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joeri Mertens, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 June 2015 by Joeri Mertens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hove_Hove_KH_(2)_-_308941_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25000HOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint-Laurentiuskerk Hove / Parochiekerk Sint-Laurentius / Parlisse Saint Laurent
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Mortselsesteenweg 5, 2540 Hove, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 3 455 51 06
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Antwerp, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N1, 10 km SE of Antwerp
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century (mid? / late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font [Hellemans]
Cognate Fonts: Kontich [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it (and to Frans Sermeus, of De Markgraaf Hove, for providing the link to Hellemans' piece)
Church Notes: original church 12thC; present church late-16thC; damaged in the Beeldenstorm and Spaanse Furie; restored 1649-1659; restored and modified 19th and 20thC
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Ludovic Hellemans' De romaanse doopvont in de Sint-Laurentiuskerk te Hove: oeroude symbolen in middeleeuwse iconograpfie (Hove: Uitgave van de gemeentelijke Heemkundige Kring "De Markgraaf", 1985) [DE ROMAANSE DOOPVONT.pdf] [accessed 18 October 2023] with measurements, etc., and a study of related fonts; Helleman (ibid.) classes it as a Tournai font ["De doopvont van Hove is Doorniks werk"; with regards the dating Hellemans is cautious, a dangerous undertaking, as he puts it ["Het juist dateren van deze doopvont is wel een hachelijke onderneming. Over geen enkele stenen Romaanse doopvont van ons land vindt men een exacte datum"]; Hellemans refers to Ghislain dating [cf. infra], and establishes the similarities with the baptismal font at Lincoln, in England, thereby risking a dating in the mid- or late-12th century ["doet ons veronderstellen dat de doopvont alhier uit het derde kwart van de 12e eeuw zou zijn, misschien wel dichtbij het midden van deze eeuw"]. Noted and illustrated in the Jean-Claude Ghislain's Les fragments de fonts baptismaux romans tournaisiens de Kontich et de Hove (1988), with date before the end of the 12th century . Noted in the Belgian Inventory site [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/13230] [accessed 18 October 2023] as a 12th-century Romanesque limestone font restored iin 1969 ["Bevat een arduinen Romaanse doopvont met voorstelling van dieren op kuip uit de twaalfde eeuw, gerestaureerd in 1969." The entry for this church in the Belgian Wikipedia [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Laurentiuskerk_(Hove)] [accessed 18 October 2023] notes a bluestone Romanesque baptismal font dating from the 12th century decorated with animals on the basin ["Het arduinen romaanse doopvont is van de 12e eeuw. Op de kuip zijn dieren gebeeldhouwd."] Noted and illustrated in the Hove site [https://www.hove.be/romaanse-doopvont-sint-laurentiuskerk] [accessed 18 October 2023]: the font was found broken up in 1968 but the pieces were relatively intact, the sides of the square measuring 88 cm; it mentions the similar font found at nearby Kontich, and suggests both were ordered by the Abbey of Lobbes; the text, which also mentions the presence of tiny fleur-de-lis symbols between some of the lions, goes on to make some [rather far-fetched?] connections between the exagerated sexual organs on some of the lions and the sixth Commandment codemning adultery.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.154114, 4.470689
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 14.81″ N, 4° 28′ 14.48″ E
UTM: 31U 602853 5667991
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: the font at nearby Kontich
Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 22 cm*
Height of Side Columns: 33 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 88 x 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Hove site [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: moder
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with small knob handle; modern