Meilegem / Meylengem

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: showing the contours of the five bases of the central shaft and the four outer colonnettes of the original Tournai font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph [onroerend erfgoed number 44009] 15 October 2019 by Kris Vandervorst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parochiekerk_Sint-Martinus_-_391586_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2024]

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view of base in context

Scene Description: shoring the lower base of the 12thC Tournai font in the churchyard in 1983

Image Source: digital image of a 1983 B&W photograph by P. de Win

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view of church exterior - churchyard

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parochiekerk Sint-Martinus"

Image Source: digital photograph [onroerend erfgoed number 44009] 15 October 2019 by Kris Vandervorst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parochiekerk_Sint-Martinus_-_391586_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parochiekerk Sint-Martinus"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph [onroerend erfgoed number 44009] 15 October 2019 by Kris Vandervorst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parochiekerk_Sint-Martinus_-_391601_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Martinuskerk in Meiligem"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 March 2011 by LimoWreck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meilegem_-_Sint-Martinuskerk_1.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Zwalm Bareelstraat 3"

Image Source: digital image of a 1999 photograph in Onroerend Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zwalm_Bareelstraat_3_-_379753_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 18 February2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 18thC baptismal font in use in this church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [cliché M222815] by Luc De Rammelaere, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/23082] [accessed 18 February 2024]

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view of fragment

Scene Description: the lower base of the former Tournai font of the medieval church here [cf. FontNotes]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: one of the pair of shell-shaped late-18thC stoups in the church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [cliché M222813] by Luc De Rammelaere, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/23235] [accessed 18 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25344MEI

Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Martinus Meilegem

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Bareelstraat 3, Meilegem, 9630 Zwalm, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N439, on the E bank of the Schelde, in the municipality of Zwalm, 16 km S of Ghent

Font Location in Church: Outside, in the churchyard

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font [fragment]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font fragment

Church Notes: Romanesque church [chapel of ease?]; became independent parish in 1701; demolished 1784; new church built thereafter

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Win & Moens (1988). Noted as a "B. Tournai" baptismal font in Drake (2002). The entry for this church in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/44009] [accessed 18 February 2024] informs that the base of the 12th-century Romanesque baptismal font of Tournai limestone was removed to the churchyard in 1784, when the new church during the building of the new church ["Ten noordwesten, op het kerkhof, voetstuk van de Romaanse doopvont van Doornikse steen uit de 12de eeuw, bij de bouw van de nieuwe kerk in 1784 naar buiten overgebracht [...] Van het Romaanse kerkje in Doornikse kalksteen, gesloopt in 1784, bleef op het kerkhof de Romaanse doopvont bewaard."] The same entry in the Inventaris notes that the present marble font in use and the two shell-shaped holy-water stoups near the portal are 18th-century ["18de-eeuws marmeren doopvont met koperen deksel. Twee schelpvormige stenen wijwatervaten uit de 18de eeuw naast portaal"]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (15 October 2023) notes: "The parish had its own priest only from 1701 onwards, it previously having been served by the pastor of Beerlegem. The present baptismal font is from that time and is dated 1691-1700. When the new baptismal font was installed, the old 12th century Romanesque, Tournai-style font was probably discarded. Its square base (103 x 101 cm) was moved to the cemetery surrounding the church. The base carried a central column and four colonnettes with leaves on the corners. It is damaged and has weathered. It is popularly known as the “champetter stone” because, after holy mass on Sunday, the local policeman (champetter) made his announcements to the population standing on this stone. What happened to the basin is unknown, maybe it is still buried in or near the church. The church is not used anymore and has been sold to private investors who will give it a new cultural function." Pol Herman gives two references for his information: 1)Paul de Win and Frans Moens, “De roepstenen en kerkpuien in de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen”, in Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, Nieuwe reeks, Deel XLII, 1988, and 2)Koenraad De Wolf, “Romaanse bouwkunst in het land van Aalst”, in Het Land van Aalst, Jaargang LX, 2008, Nr. 2, ISSN 0778-7731"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.905125, 3.698297

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 18.45″ N, 3° 41′ 53.87″ E

UTM: 31U 549099 5639507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: fragment

Trapezoidal Basin: 103 x 101 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Win, Paul de, "De roepstenen en kerkpuien in de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen", Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, Nieuwe reeks, 1988