Bossuit / Bossuth

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Amelbergakerk in Bossuit" -- showing the church in 2007, before it was deconsecrated, stripped and made into a public space

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LimoWreck, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph 1 July 2007 by LimoWreck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bossuit_-_Sint-Amelbergakerk_1.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bossuit. Avelgem. West-Vlaanderen. Belgium. The church. Ruins. Destroyed in world war I, rebuilt 1920." -- showing the church in 2018, after it was deconsecrated, stripped and made into a public space

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2018 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_113010_B_Bossuit.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Oude Sint Amelbergakerk van Bossuit (deelgemeente van Avelgem) Church as a piece of art by Ellen Harvey in Belgium Bossuit."-- showing the church interior in 2017, after it was deconsecrated, stripped and made into a public space

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Devierd'n, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 22 January 2017 by Devierd'n [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oude_Sint_Amelbergakerk_van_Bossuit_(deelgemeente_van_Avelgem)_01.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Oude Sint Amelbergakerk van Bossuit (deelgemeente van Avelgem) Church as a piece of art by Ellen Harvey in Belgium Bossuit."-- showing the church interior in 2017, after it was deconsecrated, stripped and made into a public space

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Devierd'n, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 22 January 2017 by Devierd'n [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oude_Sint_Amelbergakerk_van_Bossuit_(deelgemeente_van_Avelgem)_02.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25337BOS
Church/Chapel: Voormalige Parochiekerk Sint Amelberga, Bossuit [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Amalberga of Temse [aka Amalberta, Amelberga]
Church Location: Doorniksesteenweg, Bossuit, 8583 Avelgem, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Occidentale, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N353 [aka Doorniksesteenweg], on the N bank of the Schelde river, in the municipality and 4 km SW of Avelgem, 14 km SE of Kortrijk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bruges / Bisdom Brugge
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font fragment to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 11thC Romanesque church ; much modified since; replaced 1857; partially destroyed 1918; restored 1924; made redundant 2008, stripped and re-purposed as a public space
The entry for this church in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/79047] [accessed 17 February 2024] notes that the sounding board of the neo-Gothic pulpit hangs above the bluestone baptismal font topped with a copper cover ["Het klankbord hangt thans boven de doopvont. Arduinen doopvont met koperen deksel"]. [NB: we have no other information on the font noted above, which could date -or not- from the 1857 church, nor do we know its present whereabouts -- we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.747756, 3.408172
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 51.92″ N, 3° 24′ 29.42″ E
UTM: 31U 528796 5621854