Neerlanden No. 2
Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
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Results: 2 records
design element - motifs - flat moulding
Scene Description: several
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 M214739]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font and cover
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 M214739]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
INFORMATION
FontID: 19813NEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA (Brussels) as a baptismal font of the 16th-17th century in this church; it consists of an octagonal moulded basin raised on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base that may be a later replacement; there is a metal staple from an old cover in the upper rim. The present cover is modern, a flat round lid with a domestic-type handle. [cf. Index entry for Neerlanden No. 1 for a fragment of the original font of this church].
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
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]