Sinte-Gitter / Oud-Landen / Ouderstad / Sint-Gertrudisdal in Landen

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view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: the remaining bulges were not carved heads, even though the one on the right here suggests a roll moulding atop

Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Plaats van de kerk te Sinte-Gitter, Landen, België" -- exterior view of the archaeological site

Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landen-Sinte-Gitter_(2).JPG] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blootgelegde fundamenten van de kerk te Sinte-Gitter, Landen, België" -- showing the fragments of the old stone baptismal font in the bottom-right corner of the image

Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landen-Sinte-Gitter_(3).JPG] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the fragments of the medieval font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 June 2011 by Romaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landen-Sinte-Gitter_(3).JPG] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the fragments seen here in the bottom-right corner

Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24448LAN

Church/Chapel: Sint-Gertrudisdal, aka Sinte-Gitter [archaeological site]

Church Patron Saints: St. Gertrude the Great [aka Gertrud die Große von Helfta, Gertrude of Helfta, Gertrudis]

Church Location: Raatshovenstraat, 3400 Landen, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres

Directions to Site: The archaeological site containg the old church of the disappeared village is located off (N) Raatshovenstraat, 1-2 km SW of Landen town centre

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic

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: wooden church may have existed very early [7thC?] here; re-built in stone 8th-9thC; disused; demolished 1759; ruins excavated 1958 -- listed church [Rijksmonument 300379]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Large fragments of an octagonal baptismal font believed to be of the Gothic period/style were excavated at the Sinte-Gitter [archaeological site]; the surviving fragments indicate an octagonal shaped basin with four bulges [not heads] set at 90-degree angles; the inside of the basin is round; the material appears to be bluish limestone; there is no base or cover. [cf. BSI entry for Landen for a font of the 15th century in the 18th-century church there] A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 29 July 2022) provided much of the information and links above, and added: "the shape of the basin of the old gothic font seems unusual. I cannot yet match it with other fonts. Also, I do not really see heads, but bulges. This is something that you can observe on other Mosan fonts, maybe it reduced the costs. The font of Mont is an example."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.746181, 5.063531

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 46.25″ N, 5° 3′ 48.71″ E

UTM: 31U 645579 5623630

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (blue)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal