Leiden No. 4
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PeteBobb, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph 17 June 2002 by PeteBobb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hooglandse_Kerk_1671.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24697LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1314?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Hooglandse Kerk [formerly Saint-Pancratius]
Font Location in Church: [destroyed]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pancras [originally]
Church Notes: late-14thC wooden church; consecrated 1315; stone church started 13thC; new church started 1470; modified 16thC; damaged, looted, etc. in the Iconoclasm of the 160s and 1570s; 1574 became reformed and part of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk; much renovated since
Church Address: Nieuwstraat 20, 2312 KC Leiden, Netherlands
Site Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A44, about 20 km NE of The Hague
Additional Comments: destroyed font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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A communication to BSI from Pol herman (e-mail of 23 September 2022) notes: "In 20th of December 1314, the bishop of Utrecht allowed to build a chapel on this location, because the road to the Sint Pieterskerk at Leiden was impassable during the winter. He expressly allowed the installation of a baptismal font. The church interiors were completely destroyed during the iconoclastic fury of August 1566. The baptismal font did not survive."
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 602211 5779670
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.158056, 4.494167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 29″ N, 4° 29′ 39″ E