Brussels No. 16 / Bruxelles / Laeken / Laken

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image and permission received from the authour (e-mail of 20 May 2017)

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: the restored 19thC portal of the surviving portion of the 13thC church; this modern portal was built onto the northern side of the surviving apse, in the place where the original north transept was located

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2016 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancienne_église_Notre-Dame_de_Laeken_-_05.JPG] [accessed 21 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: the 19thC church at Laeken

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authour (e-mail of 20 May 2017)

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Medieval gothic church of Laeken (right) and Our Lady of Laeken church (Notre-Dame de Laeken - Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Laken) 19th century. Laeken (Brussels), Belgium".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dr Les Sachs, 2008

Image Source: digital image of an undated (?) photograph taken by Dr. Les Sachs, posted in Flickr 23 May 2008 [www.flickr.com/photos/22325431@N05/2517231014] [accessed 21 May 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: the east end is all that remains from the 13thC church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2016 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancienne_église_Notre-Dame_de_Laeken_-_01.JPG] [accessed 21 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font in the 19thC church at Laeken

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authour (e-mail of 20 May 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 21227BRU
Church/Chapel: Ancienne église Notre-Dame de Laeken [only the chancel remains]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: square du Cardinal Cardijn, 1020 Bruxelles, Belgique
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
Directions to Site: Located N of Brussels city centre, merged with the ville de Bruxelles since 1921 (but still retaining its own postal code) -- the remains of the old church are located in the cimetière de Laeken, near the avenue de la Reine [métro Bockstael]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bruxelles
Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the 19thC church and fonrt
Church Notes: the date of the original church is unknown, perhaps in the 9th or 10thC; the present remains, the old chancel, is 13thC; a new church was consecrated in 1873, but the chancel of the old one was salvaged.
The baptismal font in the 19th-century church is modern [NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8786, 4.35528
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 42.96″ N, 4° 21′ 19.01″ E