Nieuwlande / Nieulande / Nieuwlande in Verdronken Land van Zuid-Beveland

INFORMATION

Font ID: 23691NIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: [disappeared church]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: a church here first noted in 1242; disappeared in te 16thC floods
Church Address: [address & coordinates are for the general area of the Verdronken Land van Zuid-Beveland] Oosterschelde, 4675 RB Nederland
Site Location: Zeeland, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: This Nieuwlande was one of the drowned villages in the Verdronken Land van Zuid-Beveland drowned in the 1530 flood; the area is now part of the Oosterschelde. The village and its church are under water N of Krabbendijke and the N289
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (in one of the 1530s floods in the area)
Font Notes:
The site of the disappeared village here is now an archaeological site. Information made available by Pol Herman (e-mail of 2 January 2022) notes that the disappeared church of the village was a daughter church of Kruiningen, and that it was dedicated to the Virgin; the parish is first mentioned in 1242. The whole village drowned in the great floods of 1530 and 1532.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 578709 5700817
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.453056, 4.132778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 27′ 11″ N, 4° 7′ 58″ E