Louvain No. 1 / Leuven

INFORMATION

FontID: 02534LOU
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Jacques de Louvain / Sint-Jacobuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Sint-Jacobsplein 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located WNW of the historic centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church Notes: church ca. 1016; modified 1220; re-built 1824
Font Notes:
"Benitier fixe en metal" (Chastel, 1996, p. 288). Enlart (1902, p. 783 footnote 3) also mentions a copper stoup in Louvain, either in this church or in the one at Saint-Pierre

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8805, 4.69108
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 49.8″ N, 4° 41′ 27.89″ E
UTM: 31U 618963 5637898

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, copper
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902