Ezemaal / Esemale
Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
Results: 6 records
view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Aldegondiskerk in Ezemaal"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2008 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ezemaal_-_Sint-Aldegondiskerk.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the new church of 1965
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerk en Media vzw, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Kerk en Media vzw [https://www.kerknet.be/vicariaat-vlaams-brabant-en-mechelen/informatie/modern-kerkgebouw-landen-wordt-herbestemd] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the composite font with a "1700 (ca) - 1799 (ca)" basin [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph by Cécile Octors [cliché M209846] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2612] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the composite font shown in the context of the new church
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [M209842] [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of object in context
Scene Description: parts of the lawn ornament may belong to a former baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 8 June 2008 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ezemaal_-_Sint-Aldegondiskerk.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of object in context
Scene Description: parts of the lawn ornament may belong to a former baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerk en Media vzw, 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Kerk en Media vzw [https://www.kerknet.be/vicariaat-vlaams-brabant-en-mechelen/informatie/modern-kerkgebouw-landen-wordt-herbestemd] [accessed 21 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 25189EZE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Kerk Sint-Aldegondis, Ezemaal
Church Patron Saints: St. Aldegund [aka Aldegonde, Adelgunde. Adelgundis, Aldegonde, Aldegundis]
Church Location: Hakendoverstraat 6, 3400 Landen, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 485 42 54 97
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N279 [aka Grote Steenweg], in the municipality of Landen, 5-6 km SE of Tienen
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting these objects
Church Notes: parish first mentioned 1139; fortified church used by Villagers as refuge during the 1568 attack by the Prince of Orange; they stayed on; church demolished 1711 and re-built thereafter; demolished in 1965 and new church built
Font Notes:
Click to view
The late-Gothic baptismal font in the new (1965) church is one of the furnishings brought over from the old church ["In het uniforme moderne interieur zijn een aantal kerkmeubelen van de oude kerk bewaard gebleven: de laatgotische stenen doopvont"] [source: Erfgoedvereniging
lokale geschiedenis | heemkunde | cultuurtoerisme Pepijn@Landen] [https://www.ghklanden.be/ezemaal-1.html] [accessed 21 December 2023]. It is listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/2612] [accessed 21 December 2023]: "doopvont [...] Date: 1700 (ca) - 1799 (ca) [...] hoogte: 88 cm"; a rather shallow basin with moulded sides, raised on a modern concrete pillar and topped with a stepped dome of copper. [NB: outside the church is a stone object of interest [cf. ImagesArea] that may incorporate part(s) of an earlier font than the one inside, but we have no other information on it].
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 April 2023) notes: "Outside the church stands a water basin, which rests on the base of an ancient pillar made of Mosan limestone. It is not known whether this object ever served as a baptismal font. It is not in KIK-IRPA".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.77673, 4.99973
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 36.23″ N, 4° 59′ 59.03″ E
UTM: 31U 640987 5626903