Waanrode
Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
Results: 3 records
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: the one visible here on the left appears male, bearded and crowned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Image Source: digital image of a 1977 B&W photograph [cliché M259393], in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/26034] [accessed 25 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Sint-Bartholomeuskerk in Waanrode"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sonuwe, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2008 by Sonuwe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waanrode_-_Sint-Bartholomeuskerk.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Waanrode - St-Bartholomeuskerk. Bloemenfeesten - Kerk in de bloemen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edelhart, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 7 August 2005 by Edelhart [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waanrode_kerk.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
INFORMATION
FontID: 23569WAA
Church/Chapel: Parochiekerk van de Sint-Bartholomeus
Church Patron Saints: St. Batholomew
Church Location: Dorp 1, Waanrode, 3473 Kortenaken, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Bravant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N29, 6-7 km WNW of Kortenaken and in its municipality, about 25 km ENE of Leuven/Louvain
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century / 18th century, Medieval? / Modern?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this site to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: documented in 1139 as 'ecclesia'; present church 16thC, re-built 1902
Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/26034] [accessed 25 November 2021] as a baptismal font made of sandstone with date "1701-1800" [is that an error or is the font actually a modern replica of the Mosan design?] and measuring 105 mc in height. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a flat moulding and four human heads set at 90 degree-angles on the upper rim; at least one of the heads appears male, crowned and bearded; raised on an octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal-to-square lower base. The 1977 photograph in BALaT KIK-IRPA (ibid.) shows a flat wooden cover on it, as well as what appears to be the frame of a procession float atop. A communication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 24 November 2021) includes the baptismal fonts at Charneux, Sprang, Maasmechelen, Munsterbilzen, Tongerlo and Waanrode as somewhat similar examples of Mosan font design.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.916433,
5.004325
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 54′ 59.16″ N,
5° 0′ 15.57″ E
UTM: 31U 640889 5642445
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; appears modern
