Watou
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sint-Bavokerk te Watou (Poperinge), België"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2008
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 church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Soource caption: " Interieur van de Sint-Bavokerk te Watou (Poperinge), België"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2008
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 font and cover
Scene Description: the 1837 font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
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 font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 1837 font in the 19thC baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kerkfotografie, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Kerkfotografie [https://kerkfotografie.be/sint-bavo-watou/] [accessed 15 May 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of stoup
![Source caption: "wijwatervat. inscriptie, gebeiteld, : gedat. schenkingsisncr. op naam van C. Dhondt in 1568: [...] Dhondt, Christiaen pastoor"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220515002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "wijwatervat. inscriptie, gebeiteld, : gedat. schenkingsisncr. op naam van C. Dhondt in 1568: [...] Dhondt, Christiaen pastoor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022
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
FontID: 23955WAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sint-Bavokerk Watou
Church Patron Saints: St. Bavo [aka Allowin, Baaf, Bavo of Ghent, Bavon, Bavonius]
Church Location: Kerkhofstraat 1, 8978 Poperinge, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 57 38 80 47
Country Name: Belgium
Location: West-Vlaanderen / Flandre Ouest, Vlaanderen / Flandres
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
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: 12thC church; re-built 16thC; modified 19thC
Font Notes:
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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.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8592, 2.62018
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 33.12″ N, 2° 37′ 12.65″ E
UTM: 31U 473268 5634236
REFERENCES
De Wildt, Kees, "Doopvont in de Beeldenstorm", Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis, 21, Tijdschrift voor, 2018, pp. 114-120.