Dranouter / Nouter
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23925DRA
Church/Chapel: Sint-Jan-Baptistkerk / Sint-Jan de Dopper Katholieke Kerk
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Planciusplein 20, 8951 Heuvelland, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Occidentale, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off the N322 [aka Dranouterstraat], in the municipality and 3 km SW of Heuvelland, about 12 km SW of Ypres, just E of the border with France
Historical Region: Flandre
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Kees de Wildt's Doopvont de Beeldenstorm (2018: 114-120) as one of a number of baptismal fonts of the Westerkwartier (then part of Flanders, later chiefly in France) having been desecrated, damaged or destroyed during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566. No entry found for a font here in the BALaT KIK-IRPA. [NB: we have no further information on the font of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.76629,
2.78329
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 45′ 58.64″ N,
2° 46′ 59.84″ E
UTM: 31U 484717 5623858
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.