Hastiere / Hastière / Hastieres Hastières / Hastière-par-delà

Noted and illustrated in De Bruyn (1869-1870): "Les fonts baptismaux d Hastières affectent la forme d'une cuve hexagone, portée par une base campanulée, assemblage incohérent qui frappe à première vue et fait regretter la disparition de la partie du milieu, qui rattachait primitivement ces deux membres entre eux." Included by Cloquet (1890) and (1895) among the round fonts of the Mosan type with four heads, at 90-degree angles, on the basin sides. Listed in Enlart (1902) as Tournai but with the same characteristics as mentioned by Cloquet. Described in Doncu (1913) as "fonts tournaisiens" with four beautiful heads at the basin corners/sides with pentagonal platforms over them; these platforms, suggests Doncu, "semblent destinés à porter les accessoires nécessaires à l'administration du baptème". Doncu (ibid.) cites Enlart as source and mentions that "sont attribués au XIVe siècle" (ibid.) There are two font covers associated with this font; one is dome-shaped with an orb-and-cross finial, a design characteristic in this are since 16th and 17th centuries, and continued into the 19th century; the other appears in a photograph dated to 1914-1918; it is also made of metal, and has a lowbasin-shaped lower part with crenellations atop; a second volume is much smaller and tower-like, also with crenellations, a low dome and a floriated cross on it. The BALaT database [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)] notes and illustrated a holy-water stoup in this church; it consists of a tub-shaped basin decorated with a moulding around the top of the side, raised on an octagonal pedestal base identical to the one supporting the 16th-century font here; this source dates the basin "1201-1300", and the base "1501-1600", which is the date it assigns to the whole font.