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 - motifs - moulding
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UB01: design element - architectural - column - 6
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UB01: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled
Scene Description: in the internal cluster of the upper base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04755LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierre / Collégiale Saint-Pierre de Louvain / Sint-Pieterskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 15thC church
Church Address: Grote Markt 1, 3000 Leuven, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 16 29 51 33
Site Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the historic centre of Louvain
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Additional Comments: replaced font cover
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 619680 5637804
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.879505, 4.701226
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 52′ 46.22″ N, 4° 42′ 4.42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: hexafoil, 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, p. 298
- 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?]; p. 446 fn2
- 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, vol. 2, p. 517