Burdinne No. 1 / Beurdene

Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 February 2024)

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - foliage stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: the branch also contains fruit

Image Source: digital photograph 23 February 2024 by Jean-Pierre Boland

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 February 2024)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Burdinne (Belgique), église de la Nativité de Notre-Dame."

Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burdinne_E1_JPG.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of fragment in context

Image Source: digital photograph 23 February 2024 by Jean-Pierre Boland

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 February 2024)

view of fragment in context

Image Source: digital photograph 23 February 2024 by Jean-Pierre Boland

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Pol Herman (e-mail of 23 February 2024)

view of fragment in context

Image Source: screen capture from a digital video [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 25359BUR

Church/Chapel: Eglise de la Nativité de la Sainte-Vierge / Notre-Dame de la Nativité

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: 4210 Burdinne, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N652, 22-23 km NE of Namur

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Font Location in Church: [not in a church]

Date: n.d.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jean-Pierre Boland, of Burdinne, for bringing this object to our attention, and for his photographs; thanks as well to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this object

Church Notes: medieval church re-built 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A resident of Burdinne was intrigued by a fragment of limestone decorated with a Green Man and mounted on the brick wall of a house in the village, and who some has suggested that it might be a fragment of the baptismal font of the old church: "une pierre insérée dans le mur d'une habitation du village. On me dit qu'il pourrait s'agir d'un reste d'anciens fonts baptismaux provenant de l'ancienne église du village." The fragment displays the head of the figure usually known as a Green Man; the vegetation that issues from its mouth -or it bites?- has fruit attached. HMS (BS) commented that more context is needed to give a firm opinion on the piece, but it could more likely be a fragment of a capital instead, and later than the 13thC.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.583333, 5.066667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 35′ 0″ N, 5° 4′ 0″ E

UTM: 31U 646306 5605531

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: fragment