Old Rectory

The presbytery or deanery of Sint-Kwintens-Lennik was built in 1735 by the Sint-Gertrudis chapter of Nijvel at the request of the then pastor on a small plot (31.5 ares) northwest of the church by presbytery standards. In 1769, a floor was added to the one-storey building with thatched roof. Under French rule, it housed the gendarmerie. The current building is the result of various renovations and repairs, but the double house from 1769, which fully corresponds to the presbytery stereotype, has been preserved. It is a double house of two storeys with a facade width of five bays under a slate gable roof. The presbytery was built in brick masonry using arkose. In the facade on both floors there are cross windows in frames with negative blocks of arkose, the crosses of which date from a 20th-century restoration. On the ground floor there is a high rectangular door with a door frame with neg blocks and a narrow intermediate sill. At the height of the rear facade is a similar door and the narrow frames and the double relief arches of the former cross windows remain. The brick upper windows with arched lintels date from the 19th century. The braids of the original single-storey building are still visible in the side walls. The brick enclosure wall was erected in 1888.
Source: Inventory of Immovable Heritage