Wauthier-Braine No. 1 / Braine / Brainne / Brania Walteri / Brena / Walteri Btania / Walteri Brenna / Wati Braysne / Watier Brainne / Watier Brenna / Wautier Braine / Waulty Braine / Wouter Braken / Wouters Brachene / Woutre Brayne

Described and illustrated in Ghislain (1986-1987): the medieval basin survived when the new church in the 19th-century, but it was relegated to the "jardin du presbytère" until the 1912 inventory carried out for the Nivelles region, at the result of which the font began to be noted in learned and antiquary sources; in 1954 the old base, "son gros fût gothique polygonal" (not the original one) was replaced by a modern base in keeping with the original design, and the font was restored to its present location in the interior of the church. Ghislain (ibid.) identifies the material of the basin as a local Carboniferous limestone ["calcaire carbonifère viséen"], also called "pierre de Meuse", and suggests a date no earlier than the mid-12th century The brass dome cover bears an inscription that dates it to 1656. Ghislain (ibid.) mentions the font at Opprebais as the closest to Wauthier-Braine in the ornamental program, although there are other differences between the two fonts; he dates the font to approximately 1150-1160 [cf. infra for Ghislain's estimated date change]. Noted in Drake (2002). Noted and illustrated in the BALaT database, KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) [no.: 10026729], with date 1101-1300. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the surviving basin of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1165-1175 [cf. supra for Ghislain's earlier date estimation], found in the rectory garden in Wauthier-Braine; later restored and brought back into the church in 1954. [cf. Index entry for Wauthier-Braine No. 2 for the 16th-century baptismal now being used as holy-water stoup]