Wambeek / Wambacem / Wambecca

Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

Results: 12 records

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

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design element - patterns - gadrooned

Scene Description: all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Buitenzijde van de Sint-Remigius kerk in Wambeek"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jan Lambrecht, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 November 2017 by Jan Lambrecht [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sint-Remigius_kerk_02.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ternat Pol de Montstraat zonder nummer kerk"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kris Vandevorst, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 13 June 2006 by Kris Vandevorst [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ternat_Pol_de_Montstraat_zonder_nummer_kerk_-_34159_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ternat Pol de Montstraat zonder nummer kerk"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1973

Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph by Vlaamse Gemeenschap [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ternat_Pol_de_Montstraat_zonder_nummer_kerk_-_288503_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ternat Pol de Montstraat zonder nummer kerk"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1973

Image Source: digital image of a 1973 B&W photograph by Vlaamse Gemeenschap [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ternat_Pol_de_Montstraat_zonder_nummer_kerk_-_288504_-_onroerenderfgoed.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2022]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the side-crane mechanism to rotate the cover open

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2022

Image Source: digital image of a 1970 B&W photograph [cliché M059114] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/977] [accessed 20 May 2022]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in accordance with KIK-IRPA guidelines

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the side crane to rotate the cover open

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

view of font cover - crane - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

view of font cover - crane - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pol Herman, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph 13 May 2022 by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23976WAM
Church/Chapel: Sint-Remigiuskerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Location: Pol De Montstraat 8, 1741 Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road N285 [aka Assensteenweg], N of the N8, in the municipality and 1-2 km S of Ternat, 14-15 km W of central Brussels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention, for his photographs and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: parish owned by the Abbey of Nivelles 10thC; church documented 1059 and 1122 -- listed in the in the Vlaanderen Onroerend Erfgoed
Noted and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/977] [accessed 20 May 2022] as a baptismal font dated 1775 [cf. infra]. The entry for this church in the Vlaanderen Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/40723] [accessed 20 May 2022] mentions a font made of blue limestone in 1775 [cf. infra] A communication from Pol Herman to BSI gives background on the medieval church here, documented by 1059. Pol Herman dates the font as 17th-century and provides the photographs of the cover mechanism that show the 1775 on it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.852661, 4.161625
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 9.58″ N, 4° 9′ 41.85″ E
UTM: 31U 581768 5634083

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BALaT KIK-IRPA

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the metal side crane of the cover
Inscription Text: "1775"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1775?
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: yes; side crane
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]