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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint Lambertus Kerk: kerk" -- destroyed by the German army in 1944

Image Source: digital image of a December 1944 B&W photograph in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerk_-_Wouw_-_20218463_-_RCE.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2021]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font that replaced the one destroyed by the German arny in WWII

Image Source: digital photograph 13 September 2014 by Hans1967 [https://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bestand:Wouw_R.K.Kerk_H.Lambertus-Doopvont.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23635WOU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Sint Lambertus Kerk

Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]

Church Location: Torenplein 1, 4724 BX Wouw, Netherlands -- Tel.: +31 165 301 214

Country Name: Netherlands

Location: Noord-Brabant

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A58, 25-30 km N of Antwerp

Century and Period: 17th century

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: early-13thC wooden chapel replaced by stone church in 1270; re-built 15thC with tower added in 1480; restored 1882; damaged by German army bombing 1944; restored 1951

Font Notes: Click to view

The earlier font here, a stone font of the 17th century, was destroyed by the German army in 1944 [source: Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel X. De provincie Noord-Brabant (1931)]. The present baptismal font in this church is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.521679, 4.387635

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 31′ 18.04″ N, 4° 23′ 15.49″ E

UTM: 31U 596272 5708753