Warnant / Warnant-Dreye / Wernant

INFORMATION

Font ID: 10136WAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: 1599

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Hubert Feron

Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Rémy à Warnant

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]

Church Address: Rue Joseph Wauters, 4530 Villers-le-Bouillet, Belgium

Site Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the E42, 4-5 km NW of Villers-le-Bouillet, about 25 km W of Liège

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Additional Comments: altered font (some of the base supports?)

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10114243] [accessed 15 August 2025]: "Fonts baptismaux à demi encastrés dans la muraille, colonnettes (2) cantonnant le fût fournies par D. Dejardin et sculptées par Hubert Feron [...] datation, gravé, sur la cuve: 1599". The dome-shaped brass cover made in 1906 by the Saint-Luc[école] workshop ["(dinandier) (atelier[f])"] of Tournai.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 657628 5607110

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.594585, 5.227141

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 35′ 40.51″ N, 5° 13′ 37.71″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: polygonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Location: on the basin [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: "1599"

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1906

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: dome with tiny Latin-cross finial

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