Jabbeke No. 2 / Jabeca / Jabecah
Image copyright © Loppem Castle, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - circle - concentric
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loppem Castle, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2021 by Loppem Castle
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: many tiny scrolls decorated the outer noulding of the lower base; although many are eroded away, some are still discernible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loppem Castle, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2021 by Loppem Castle
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: showing one of the four leaves that decorated the corners original lower base of the Tournai-type font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loppem Castle, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2021 by Loppem Castle
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
view of base - lower base - fragment
Scene Description: two of the extand fragments of the disappeared Romanesque font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Loppem Castle, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2021 by Loppem Castle
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
view of base - fragment - in context
Scene Description: two fragments of the font base is discernible at the far back, above the flowers, left of the metal cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2023 taken by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
view of base - fragment - in context
Scene Description: two fragments of the font base is discernible at the far back, above the flowers, left of the metal cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2023 taken by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
view of base - upper view
![the lower base of the Romanesque font is reconstructed in this drawing; the small section shown in the drawing corresponds to one of the fragments, now extant, that are exhibited in Le Petit Musée, Loppem Castle at Zedelgem-Loppem [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231222023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the lower base of the Romanesque font is reconstructed in this drawing; the small section shown in the drawing corresponds to one of the fragments, now extant, that are exhibited in Le Petit Musée, Loppem Castle at Zedelgem-Loppem [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Pol Herman of a ca.1872 drawing by Charles Deceuninck (vicar of Jabbeke), in the Loppem Castle collections
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 April 2023)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25184JAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai type?
Museum: Le Petit Musée, Loppem Castle at Zedelgem-Loppem
Church / Chapel Name: [cf. Original Location field]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): Sint-Blasiuskerk Jabbeke
Church Notes: church first mentioned 988; re-built 1128; demolished 1829; present church of 1871
Church Address: [address & coordinates are for the parish church] Begraafplaats Sint-Blasiuskerk, N367a 9, 8490 Jabbeke, Belgium
Site Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Occidentale, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N377, S of the A10, 8-10 km WSW of Bruges
Additional Comments: fragment of a font in a museum / buried font (fragments) [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 April 2023) describes and illustrates fragments of the base of a Romanesque Tournai-type font conserved at 'Le Petit Musée' of the castle of Loppem-Zedelgem: "They were found in 1872 , buried under the floor of the baptismal chapel when the Romanesque church of Jabbeke (1128) was demolished. In his notes drawn up at the time of the demolition of the church, the vicar Charles Deceuninck mentions : 'While digging further at the foundations of the old church, on January 26, 1872 someone found in the transept to the south, the base of the original baptismal font in Romanesque style. The workers had already bricked 2 pieces of it into the new foundation before I could intervene.' He made a sketch. Square base of 120 cm length." [NB: the fragments may belong to the font of the medieval church that was re-built in 1128].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention, and for his help in documenting it. We are also grateful to the curator of Le Petit Musée, Loppem Castle at Zedelgem-Loppem, for the photographs of this font, supplied via Pol Herman
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 506542 5670133
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.182583, 3.0936
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 10′ 57.3″ N, 3° 5′ 36.96″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Trapezoidal Basin: 120 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]