Landen
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Image Source: digital image of a 1974 B&W negative [cliché M214849] by Cécile Octors, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W negative [cliché A069980] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: a devilish human?
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Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W negative [cliché A069979] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: a devilish human?
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Image Source: digital image of a 1974 B&W negative [cliché M21484] by Cécile Octors, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1974 B&W negative [cliché M214843] by Cécile Octors, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1944 B&W negative [cliché A069978] by the Commissariaat generaal voor de Passieve Luchtbescherming in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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human figure - head - wearing hat
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1974 B&W negative [cliché M214842] by Cécile Octors, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: grimacing? / deformed?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1974 B&W negative [cliché M214841] by Cécile Octors, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Gertrudiskerk" -- the modern church of 1759
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Les Meloures, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 6 May 2007 by Les Meloures [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landen_-_Kerk.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24449LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Church / Chapel Name: Sint Gertrudiskerk / Parochiekerk Sint-Gertrudis. / Église Sainte Gertrude, Landen
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: neo-Gothic church built 1759 after the demolition of the old one, Sinte-Gitter; some remains of the old church may have been used in the new building -- listed Rijsksmonument [43399]
Church Address: Kerkstraat 26, 3400 Landen, Belgium
Site Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N283 [aka Bovenpoortstraat], N of highway E40, equidistant between Brussels (W) and Maastricht (E)
Additional Comments: moved font (the font is 15thC while the church is 18thC (probably moved from the earlier demolished church)
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2521] [accessed 14 November 2022] as a baptismal font made between 1400 and 1499. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles, the spaces between with a torus-scotia-torus sequence; the rounded underbowl is plain; the moulded pedestal atarts octagonal at the top, is round in the centre section and square towards the bottom. All of it is made of the bluish limestone charateristic of the area. [cf. BSI entry for Sinte-Gitter for the fragments of font in the old church that was demolished but is now an archaeological site]
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 646770 5624740
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.75585, 5.08083
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 45′ 21.06″ N, 5° 4′ 50.99″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (blue)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA