Zelem

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Lambertuskerk in Zelem"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 July 2007 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zelem_-_Sint-Lambertuskerk.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the new font of 1930

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022

Image Source: digital image of a 1930 B&W photograph in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/29615] [accessed 20 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23977ZEL
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Lambertus van Zelem / Sint-Lambertuskerk Zelem
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Dorpsstraat 36, 3545 Halen, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Limburg, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located N of highway E314, 3-4 km E of Diest
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: legendary 7thC church here; two other later churches/chapels existed here; replaced by present church built on a new site in 1878 -- listed in the in the Vlaanderen Onroerend Erfgoed [21803]
The entry for this church in the Vlaanderen Onroerend Erfgoed [21803] mentions no font in it. The present font is noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/29615] [accessed 20 May 2022] as a baptismal font made of marble in ca. 1930; it consists of a square basin with slightly tapering sides, on four-colum clusterand a square lower base. Topped with a cover made of copper with a cross finial. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the earlier church(es) here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.979686, 5.104239
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 58′ 46.87″ N, 5° 6′ 15.26″ E
UTM: 31U 647711 5649674