Wever / Wevere
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25479WEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment?
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 17th century, Medieval - Early Modern
Church / Chapel Name: Sint-Antoniuskerk, Wever
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Church Notes: church, a chapel of ease to Attenrode, here documented 1248; became independent parish 1825; replaced by new church of 1857-1858; old church demolished 1862
Church Address: Solveldweg 4, Wever, 3384 Glabbeek, Belgium
Site Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Brabant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located between the N223 (W) and the N29 (E), in the municipality and 2-3 km WSW of Glabbeek, about 6 km N of Tienen
Additional Comments: fragment of a font? / disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The entry for the new (mid-19th century) church in Wever in the Belgian Wikipedia [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Antoniuskerk_(Wever)] [accessed 5 May 2024] reports a baptismal font of the 17th century in it ["Uit het begin van de 17e eeuw is het doopvont"]. The entry for this church in Alex Laermans (2007) [https://www.kerkglabbeek.be/kerken-en-kapelletjes-wever-sint-antoniuskerk] [accessed 5 May 2024] notes that Wauters had mentioned some sculpted heads he believed belonged to an old baptismal font here ["Op dat kerkhof had Wouters [sic] nog oude grafstenen en enkele gebeeldhouwde koppen, die volgens hem toehoorden aan de oude doopvont, aangetroffen"]. Wauters (1882) mentions that one could see sculpted human heads, parts of a baptismal font, kept in the presbytery, fragments that came from the old church that was demolished in 1862.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 March 2024) includes the Wauters reference above, but he could not find any trace of those fragments. Pol Herman further also refers to an exchange with a local source, Staf Vandegaer, Collectiebeheer, Heemkundige Kring Glabbeek vzw,
Bunsbeekdorp 4A, 3380 Bunsbeek, who "informed me that the church received a new font in 1842, donated by the baron Deman."
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 March 2024) includes the Wauters reference above, but he could not find any trace of those fragments. Pol Herman further also refers to an exchange with a local source, Staf Vandegaer, Collectiebeheer, Heemkundige Kring Glabbeek vzw,
Bunsbeekdorp 4A, 3380 Bunsbeek, who "informed me that the church received a new font in 1842, donated by the baron Deman."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font(?) to our attention and for his help documenting it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 635364 5635800
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.858028, 4.923308
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 28.9″ N, 4° 55′ 23.91″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: fragment
REFERENCES
- Tarlier, Jules, La Belgique ancienne et moderne. Géographie et histoire des communes belges, Volume 2, Partie 2. Arrondissement de Louvain. Canton de Glabbeek, 1882, p. 32