Sint-Kwintens-Lennik
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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design element - motifs - stop - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Kwintenskerk (Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020_14-26-50.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Kwintenskerk (Sint-Kwintens-Lennik) schip:"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_schip_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Kwintenskerk (Sint-Kwintens-Lennik) 39937 achterzijde schip"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_achterzijde_schip_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: IImage copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2024
Image Source: digital image of a 1970 B&W photograph by Emile Speltdoorn, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/821] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint_Kwintens_Lennik. Sint-Kwintens-Lennik, Sint-Kwint. Lennik. Vlaams Brabant. Belgium. Doopvont, 1500-1510 (?), koperen deksel 14e eeuw." -- showing the wall-mounted crane on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul M.R. Maeyaert, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2023 by Paul M.R. Maeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_148840_B_Sint_Kwintens_Lennik.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Doopvont Sint-Kwintenskerk (Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)" -- showing the wall-mounted crane on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 September 2020 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doopvont_Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Sint-Kwintens-Lennik)_39937_7-09-2020.jpg] [accessed 12 January 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25254LEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint-Kwintenskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]
Church Location: Andreas Masiusplein 45, Sint-Kwintens-Lennik, 1750 Lennik, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N282, in the municipality of Lennik, about 15 km W of Brussels city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Historical Region: Pajottenland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] -- 16th century[base only], Medieval [composite font?]
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: church ca. 1370
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of limestone made between 1500 and 1510, listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/821] [accessed 12
January 2024]: "doopvont [...] Date: 1500 (onzeker) - 1510 (onzeker) [...] hoogte zonder deksel 101 cm"; the font cover of copper "Date: 1300 - 1399".
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 15 July 2023) refers to Gids voor Vlaanderen (2007) as a more likely dating, with the basin in the 14th century and the base in the 16th, a composite object.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.806719, 4.154483
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 24.19″ N, 4° 9′ 16.14″ E
UTM: 31U 581345 5628967
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Date: 14th century
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: yes; wall-mounted crane
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Vandeputte, Omer, Gids voor Vlaanderen: toeristische en culturele gids voor alle steden en dorpen in Vlaanderen, Tielt: Lannoo, 2007