Louvain No. 7 / Leuven

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view of basin - fragment
Scene Description: the bottom section of the basin of a 12thC(?) Mosan baptismal font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2014 by Luc Behets, in the Erfgoedplus [KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [https://www.erfgoedplus.be/details/KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [accessed 8 May 2024]
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view of basin - fragment
Scene Description: part of the bottom section of the basin of a 12thC(?) Mosan baptismal font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luc Behets, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2014 by Luc Behets, in the Erfgoedplus [KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [https://www.erfgoedplus.be/details/KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [accessed 8 May 2024]
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
Scene Description: showing the location where the old font fragment had been used as a door step [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luc Behets, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2014 by Luc Behets, in the Erfgoedplus [KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [https://www.erfgoedplus.be/details/KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [accessed 8 May 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25485LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
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
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and to him and Jean-Claude Ghislain for their help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 May 2024) include an exchange between him and expert fonter Jean-Claude Ghislain about "the fragment of a Romanesque Mosan baptismal font was found during the restauration of the Sint-Kwinten church at Leuven, in 1967-1970; it had been used as a door threshold. According to Jean-Claude Ghislain, it carried four heads (that were chopped off) and symmetric palmettes similar to the romanesque fonts of Lubbeek and Erezée."
Pol Herman made reference to a 20 July 2021 entry in the Erfgoedplus [KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [https://www.erfgoedplus.be/details/KF.objecten.1372144298197-1628962945] [accessed 8 May 2024] where the fragment is described as part of the base of a 12th-century limestone baptismal font ["Onderdeel van een doopvont [...] een bewerkt stuk arduin als onderdeel van de voet van de eerdere Romaanse doopvont uit de 12e eeuw [...] arduin (bewerkt) [...] diameter: 84,0 cm, dikte: 14,0 cm"]. PH wrote to J-CG identifying the fragment as the bottom of the basin, not the base. The 19 July 2021 e-mail reply from J-CG to PH reads: "Le fragment de l'église Sint-Kwinten à Leuven découvert en fin de restauration (1967-1970) est effectivement celui de la partie inférieure d'une cuve romane et non celui d'une base. J'avais suggéré il y a une douzaine d'années de rentrer dans l'église ce vestige déposé à l'extérieur et soumis aux intempéries, mais j'ignore si j'ai été écouté [...] Les décors sont ravalés de même que les traces de têtes, mais les panneaux semblent avoir montré des palmettes symétriques à l'instar de celles visibles à Lubbeek et Erezée."
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, limestone
Font Shape: fragment
Notes on Measurements: measurements of the fragment: 84 x 14 cm [cf. FontNotes]