Louvain No. 6 / Leuven

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "België - Leuven - Sint-Kwintenkerk"

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interieur van de Sint Kwintenskerk te Leuven"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Bakker, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2012 by Johan Bakker [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:42130_Kwintenskerk_1.jpg] [accessed 8 May 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: showing the mid-16thC font at the far [west] end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vincent Debonne, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 5 March 2010 by Vincent Debonne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leuven_Naamsestraat_zonder_nummer_-_143943_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 8 May 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: https://openchurches.eu/nl/gebouwen/sint-kwintens-leuven] [accessed 8 May 2024]

INFORMATION

FontID: 25484LOU
Church/Chapel: Katholieke Kerk Sint-Kwinten in Leuven
Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]
Church Location: Sint-Quintensberg 8-10 / Naamsestraat 160a, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located about 35 km E of Brussels. The church is located off (N) the R23, on the W side of the city's Nieuw Kwartier
Ecclesiastic Region: Aartsbisdom Mechelen-Brussel / Archidiocèse de Malines-Bruxelles
Font Location in Church: Insdie the church, beneath the W gallery
Date: 1560
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Church Notes: "ecclesia Sancti Quintini de Hovis" first mentioned 1222 as a chapel of ease to Brussels' St Peter's; became indenpendent parish in 1252; constructed over a long period (until 1535); modified and restored 17th-20thC;
The baptismal font in use in this church is described and illustrated in the Open Kerken / Open Churches site for this church [https://openchurches.eu/nl/gebouwen/sint-kwintens-leuven] [accesse 8 May 2024]: a late-Gothic stone font inscribed with the date 1560 ["De doopvont bevindt zich in de doopkapel onder de toren, achter een smeedijzeren hek in Lodewijk de XVde stijl (1765). Het is een laatgotische stenen kuip met inscripties (1560) en een deksel in gedreven koper met tegengewicht (1779)"]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.870278, 4.698611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 52′ 13″ N, 4° 41′ 55″ E
UTM: 31U 619519 5636774

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Text: "1560"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1779
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: yes; counterweight pulley
Notes: dome-shaped with large foliated finial