Louvain No. 1 / Leuven
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02534LOU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Jacques de Louvain / Sint-Jacobuskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: church ca. 1016; modified 1220; re-built 1824
Church Address: Sint-Jacobsplein 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Site Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located WNW of the historic centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here)
Font Notes:
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"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
UTM: 31U 618963 5637898
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8805, 4.69108
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 52′ 49.8″ N, 4° 41′ 27.89″ E
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, p. 288
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 783 footnote 3