Neerlanden No. 1
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human figure - male - head
Scene Description: the only remaing fragment of the old font
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B079944]
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human figure - male - head
Scene Description: the only remaing fragment of the old font [NB: the head, which was extant in 1944, appears to have been mounted onto something in this 1974 photograph]
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Cécile Octors, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M214746]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2008 by Sonuwe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neerlanden_-_Maria_Magdalenakerk.jpg] [accessed 10 April 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Cécile Octors, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M214725]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Cécile Octors, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M214732]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1974 by Cécile Octors, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium = Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M214733]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19812NEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Kerk Sint-Aldegondis / Sint-Maria-Magdalenakerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Aldegund [aka Aldegonde, Adelgunde. Adelgundis, Aldegonde, Aldegundis] / St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Bergstraat 20 B-3404 Neerlanden, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Bravant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located N of Lande, ESE of Brussels, halfway between it and Maastricht
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1165-1175?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a fragment of the basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1165-1175; only a hhuman head remains of what was a circular basin with four heads at 90-degree angles; similar to others on the fonts of Opprebais, Wauthier-Braine, etc.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.77786, 5.08018
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 40.3″ N, 5° 4′ 48.65″ E
UTM: 31U 646655 5627185
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009