Watou

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 1837 font

Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M020636] by Luc Van Raefelghem, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/59020] [accessed 15 May 2022]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Bavokerk te Watou (Poperinge), België"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 September 2008 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerkwatou_22-09-2008_12-12-38.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 1837 font in the 19thC baptistery

Image Source: digital photograph in Kerkfotografie [https://kerkfotografie.be/sint-bavo-watou/] [accessed 15 May 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Soource caption: " Interieur van de Sint-Bavokerk te Watou (Poperinge), België"

Image Source: digital photograph 22 September 2008 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerkwatou_22-09-2008_12-12-40.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2022]

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view of stoup

Source caption: "wijwatervat. inscriptie, gebeiteld, : gedat. schenkingsisncr. op naam van C. Dhondt in 1568: [...] Dhondt, Christiaen pastoor"

Scene Description: Source caption: "wijwatervat. inscriptie, gebeiteld, : gedat. schenkingsisncr. op naam van C. Dhondt in 1568: [...] Dhondt, Christiaen pastoor"

Image Source: digital image of a 1967 B&W photograph [cliché M020631] by Luc Van Raefelghem, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/59212] [accessed 15 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 23955WAT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Bavokerk Watou

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bavo [aka Allowin, Baaf, Bavo of Ghent, Bavon, Bavonius]

Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 16thC; modified 19thC

Church Address: Kerkhofstraat 1, 8978 Poperinge, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 57 38 80 47

Site Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 7-8 km W of Poperinge, just E of the forder with France, about 20 km W of Ypres

Additional Comments: destroyed font? [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Kees de Wildt's Doopvont de Beeldenstorm (2018: 114-120) as one of a number of baptismal fonts of the Westerkwartier (then part of Flanders, later in France) having been desecrated, damaged or destroyed during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566. The present font in this church, made of marble in 1837, is listed in BALaT Kik-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/59020] [accessed 15 May 2022]. [we have no information on the date or period of the font destroyed in the mid-16th century riots; it may have been the one from the medieval church here]. There is also a wall-mounted stone holy-water stoup made in 1568; the inscription on its front gives the date and the name of the then 'pastoor', C. Dhondt.

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 473268 5634236

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8592, 2.62018

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 33.12″ N, 2° 37′ 12.65″ E

REFERENCES

De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.