Polleur / Poleur

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Scene Description: Source caption: "En enlevant une croix, on a retrouvé... l’ancienne cuve baptismale de Polleur!"

Image Source: digital photograph in the 30 September 2020 edition of SUDINFO [https://www.sudinfo.be/art/655285/article/2020-09-30/en-enlevant-une-croix-retrouve-lancienne-cuve-baptismale-de-polleur] [accessed 22 January 2024]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: claimed to be the basin of an old baptismal font from the parish church of Polleur, re-purposed as base of a crossroads cross

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise St Jacques (Polleur) [...] L’église remonte à 1450 et transformée à plusieurs reprises. La forme hélicoïdale se rencontre dans d’autres villages de la région et serait adaptée à la résistance aux vents."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 September 2021 by BUFO8 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theux_Eglise_St_Jacques_(Polleur)_tour.jpg] [accessed 22 January 2024]

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view of context

Scene Description: claimed to be the basin of an old baptismal font from the parish church of Polleur, re-purposed as base of a crossroads cross

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: "fonts baptismaux [...] néo-gothique [...] Date: 1905 (ca) - 1905 (ca) [...] hauteur: 103 cm [...] couvercle en bois" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a 1976 B&W photograph [cliché M240754] in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10105716] [accessed 22 January 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25284POL

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jacques de Polleur / Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame et Saint-Jacques de Polleur

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. James

Church Location: Pl. Victor Bouillenne 12, 4910 Theux, Belgium

Country Name: Belgium

Location: Liège, Wallonie / Wallonne

Directions to Site: Located off the N640, E of the A27, in the municipality and 5-6 km of Theux, 7 km S of Verviers, 20+ km ESE of Liège

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège

Date: n.d.

Church Notes: original legendary church or chapel dedicated to St. Materne; later dedicated to St. James?; re-built 15thC [ca. 1450];

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A news report in the 30 September 2020 edition of SudInfo [https://www.sudinfo.be/art/655285/article/2020-09-30/en-enlevant-une-croix-retrouve-lancienne-cuve-baptismale-de-polleur] [accessed 22 January 2024] informs of the discovery of an ancient baptismal font, dug up in the process of the removal for restoration of a 'croix de carrefour' in the village: "Juste avant le confinement, les ouvriers communaux theutois se sont rendus à Polleur pour retirer la croix qui se trouve au coin de la rue Xhavée et du Vieux Thier, pour la rénovation. Celle-ci était branlante et fixée dans quelque chose, raconte l'historien theutois Paul Bertholet. Lorsqu'ils l'ont dégagée, ils ont retrouvé une cuve baptismale de 68 cm de diamètre, retournée, et dont on ne percevait que l'extérieur." [NB: whether ths object was really a font basin or not, this would not be the first time a font has been re-cycled as the base of a cross]. The modern baptismal font in this church is lisyed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10105716] [accessed 22 January 2024]: "fonts baptismaux [...] néo-gothique [...] Date: 1905 (ca) - 1905 (ca) [...] hauteur: 103 cm [...] couvercle en bois".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.539116, 5.88111

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 20.82″ N, 5° 52′ 52″ E

UTM: 31U 704146 5602539