Lovenjoel / Louvenjoul / Lovengule / Lovengyul / Lovenjoul / Loviniol
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human figure - head
Scene Description: Source caption: "Arduinen of blauw hardstenen mensenhoofd, fragment van een romaanse doopvont uit de twaafde of dertiende eeuw met diep liggende bolle ogen zoals op de 12de eeuwse doopvont uit de St. Sulpice te Beauvechain/ Bevekom.Bodemvondst uit een vijver van de pastorie te Lovenjoel in 1928"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Verwinnen, Katrien, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 15 April 2005 by Verwinnen, Katrien [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lovenjoel_Stationsstraat_kerk_en_omgeving_-_173876_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 16 June 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lovenjoel Stationsstraat kerk en omgeving"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Taxandriamuseum, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Taxandriamuseum [https://erfgoedinzicht.be/collecties/detail/67e8a4fe-518f-565a-86ea-7fbc24b0db2b/media/9e0183c9-a381-bc21-7ba7-eb60f01e1882?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=doopvont&rows=1&page=37] [accessed 16 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24031LOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Museum and Inventory Number: Taxandriamuseum
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk Sint-Lambertus, Lovenjoel
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Stationsstraat 50, 3360 Bierbeek, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 16 46 01 85
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N3 [aka Tiensesteenweg], in the municipality and 3 km NE of Bierbeek, 5-6 km ESE of Louvain
Font Location in Church: [fragment in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 15thC church; much modified since; demolished 1853 retaining the 15thC tower; re-built 1854
Font Notes:
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A fragment of a limestone baptismal font of the 12th-13th century originally recovered from a pond in the rectory at Lovenjoel now [2022] resides in the colections of the Taxandriamuseum [https://erfgoedinzicht.be/collecties/detail/67e8a4fe-518f-565a-86ea-7fbc24b0db2b/media/9e0183c9-a381-bc21-7ba7-eb60f01e1882?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=doopvont&rows=1&page=37] [accessed 16 June 2022]; the measurements of the fragment, a human head, are given as: "hoogte 28.5 cm; breedte 15.0 cm; diepte 17.0 cm" The entry for Lovenjoel in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/41369] [accessed 16 June 2022] notes and illustrates a baptismal font made of marble between 1851 and 1875.
A further communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 31 May 2022) mentions also a fragment of a Mosan baptismal font: "Limestone (or Maasland blue stone) fragment of a Romanesque baptismal font with a freely stylized human head on the corner of the basin, next to a decorated surface. Found by pastor Willems from Arendonk (the fragment is said to have been found in Ravels).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.853781, 4.782275
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 13.61″ N, 4° 46′ 56.19″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: [fragment]