Marcq / Marcq-lez-Enghien / Mark

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design element - architectural - column - with capital and base - 5

Scene Description: the central shaft appears octagonal and moulded from top to bottom; the outer colonnettes are round and baluster shaped, with square lower bases -- all the supports are of a much later date than the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of an 1895 B&W photograph [cliché B003146] [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10031237] [accessed 3 April 2024]

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human figure - female - head - wearing head-dress and wimple

Image Source: digital image of an 1895 B&W photograph [cliché B003147] [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10031237] [accessed 3 April 2024]

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human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing headband

Scene Description: looks like a patterned band or diadem

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman]

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human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing headband

Scene Description: looks like a band or diadem with a hanging leaf on the right

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman]

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human figure - male - head - bearded - wearing headband

Scene Description: looks like a band or diadem; it has a protrusion or ornament on the right side, and may have had a similar one on the left, but this side is damaged

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman]

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view of base - drawing - detail

Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing [source N/A]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph [cliché M094677] by Jran-Pierre Sluse [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10031237] [accessed 3 April 2024]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Marcq (Enghien) (Belgique), l'église Saint-Martin (XII/XVIIe siècle) / Mark (Bèljike), l'èglîje Sint-Maurtin (XII/XVIIin.me sièke)."

Image Source: digital photograph 18 September 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcq_(Enghien)_JPG00b.jpg] [accessed 3 April2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Marcq (Enghien) (Belgique), l'église Saint-Martin (XII/XVIIe siècle) / Mark (Bèljike), l'èglîje Sint-Maurtin (XII/XVIIin.me sièke)."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 September 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcq_(Enghien)_JPG00a.jpg] [accessed 3 April2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Marcq"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 November 2021 by Edison McCullen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Marcq.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an 1895 B&W photograph [cliché B003146] [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10031237] [accessed 3 April 2024]

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view of font - drawing

Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing [source N/A]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A042922] [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10031237] [accessed 3 April 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25411MAR

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de Marcq

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Rue du Village 50, Marq, 7850 Enghien, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located N of the N7, in the municipality of Enghien, about 30 km WSW of Brussels

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only], Transitional [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type

Cognate Fonts: the font at Fooz [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

Church Notes: 11thC tower; rest is 17th-18thC; restored 1865

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font described in Vande Vyvere (1871): "Fonts baptismaux de Marcq-lez-Enghien. La cuve de forme hémisphérique taillée en pierre bleue se présente sans moulures, et a pour tout ornement quatre masques surmontés chacun d'un simple abaque. Au bas de ces masques la cuve se divise en quatre valves, d'où naissent quatre colonnettes qui, de concert avec le pédicule du milieu, la déposent sur une grande pierre carrée portant des moulures sur les côtés. Ces fonts intéressants ont subi une légère modification dans des siècles postérieurs ; ce ne sont pas les colonnettes auxiliaires qui ont été modifiées, connue on l'a cru, mais le support du milieu qui, chargé de moulures et de forme octogone, ne remonte pas au-delà du XVe siècle. Les quatre supports auxiliaires nous semblent au contraire parfaitement dans le style : la renaissance, il est vrai, a produit des balustres de ce genre, mais nous n'en connaissons pas de cette forme. De plus, ces supports sont parfaitement amenés et forment, pour ainsi dire, corps avec la cuve; ils sont taillés dans la même pierre que celle-ci et ils portent les mêmes coups de ciseau, faits au moyen des mêmes instruments. Le pédicule du milieu, d'une forme plus moderne, nous semble avoir été taillé par d'autres mains. Nous croyons que, dans le principe, ces fonts n'avaient pas de pédicule au milieu, mais qu'il y aura été ajouté après coup, parce que les quatre supports primitifs fléchissaient sous le poids de la cuve. Nous terminons cette description en faisant remarquer qu'un masque de la cuve est très endommagé ; les trois autres, tous à figures différentes, sont très-bien conservés. La forme du monument et les mascarons d'un relief très développé font supposer qu'il appartient à la fin du XIIe siècle." Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10031237] [accessed 3 April 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre calcaire [...] Date: 1551 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 112 cm". A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 11 December 2023) refers to Vande Vyvere [cf. supra] which accounts for the diversity of parts in this font and gives an early source: "This font is generally considered as being a late-Romanesque Mosan limestone product. It still has the central column and 4 colonnettes, and 4 heads, but the general design of the basin is from the transition of Romanesque to gothic; dated mostly late-12th or early-13thC. The central column is 16th century Hainaut-style limestone; the four outer colonnettes are even later, 17th century. One of the heads has 2 (devil?) horns, it reminds me of the font at Fooz [...] The only description that I find is: L’abbé Vande Vyvere". [NB: the two fonts, Marcq and Fooz, no doubt share some similarities, especially in some details of the heads; there are however notable differences inclding the outer shape of the basins -round vs. octagonal- and the time period to which they belong: 13th vs 16th century]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.692336, 4.017881

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 41′ 32.41″ N, 4° 1′ 4.37″ E

UTM: 31U 571895 5616107

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood?,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Vande Vyvere [aka Van de Vyvere], Abbé G., "Essai sur les fonts baptismaux remarquables des environs d'Audenarde et de Grammont‎", Dixième année (1871), Bulletin des Commissions royales d'Art et d'Archéologie, 1871