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
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 15 May 2022)
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
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]