Aartrijke / Artiriacum / Artrica / Villa Artrecias

INFORMATION

Font ID: 25923AAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 8th - 16th century (?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Andreaskerk (Aartrijke)
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: Aartrijke and its church first documented in 898 as "Artiriacum"; the first stone church built ca. 1108; destroyed during the iconoclastic fury in 1566; looted in the Calvinist republic in 1578; re-built 1622-1656; re-built 1793; new church built between 1897 and 1900
Church Address: Brugsestraat 1, Aartrijke, Belgium
Site Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Occidentale, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N368 [aka Brugsestraat], in the municipality and 5-6 km W of Zedelgem
Additional Comments: disappeared / destroyed font(s) (the one(s) from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
Present font is modern, of the ca. 1900 re-building of this church. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the medieval church here]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this church and its disappeared font(s) to our attention, and for his help in documenting the site

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 506317 5663107
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.119406, 3.090261
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 7′ 9.86″ N, 3° 5′ 24.94″ E