Louvain No. 2 / Leuven

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - protome - 6

Scene Description: at the very end of the arches of the lower base

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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - double

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled

Scene Description: in the internal cluster of the upper base

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - 6

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04755LOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre / Collégiale Saint-Pierre de Louvain / Sint-Pieterskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Grote Markt 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 16 29 51 33
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located in the historic centre of Louvain
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: 15thC church
A font cover crane of the late-15th or early-16th century here is noted in Esquié (1880). Lasteyrie (1926-1927) mentions a font cover with rich High Gothic decoration which existed (?) by the baptismal font at the church of Saint-Pierre of Louvain. Also mentioned in Bond (1908) in relation to the crane used to raise the cover. The present cover, however is from 1958, on the bronze font of the late-15th century; the iron bracket which raises/swings the cover is also 15th-century. The font itself consists of a hexafoiled basin with moulded upper rim, raised on six columns resting on arches which in turn rest on lion protomes. The lower volume of the tall lid matches the hexafoiled shape of the basin in reverse, with a traceried railing all around; the upper volume is a hexagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises and figures at the lower corners; floral finial with a triple loop to which the hook of the wich connects; the large wrought-iron bracket if affixed to the nearby wal; and is decorated with traceried open-work and large scrolled vegetation.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.879505, 4.701226
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 46.22″ N, 4° 42′ 4.42″ E
UTM: 31U 619680 5637804

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: hexafoiled (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexafoiled

LID INFORMATION

Date: High Gothic
Notes: two covers [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; r["References"]
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927