Alleur / Aleur

A communication to BSi from Pol Herman (e-mail of 17 November 2025) informs: "The first place of worship in Alleur dates back to the 7th century; it was served by the clergy of Xhendremael. By the 11th century, a parish structure with a resident priest was established. The village of Alleur quickly became more important than Xhendremael; however, until the beginning of the 19th century, children continued to be baptized in the mother church of Xhendremael. Several church buildings have stood on the same site as the current one, which likely explains the height of the mound on which it stands, as each church was built on the ruins of previous ones. Alleur was destroyed by Charles the Bold in 1468. In 1765, a storm toppled the church steeple. The building was completely destroyed. A new church was built and consecrated on April 30, 1770. The current church dates from 1877. Broken baptismal font, 19th century. Font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA
https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10004588" : "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre [...] hauteur: 120 cm [...] disloqués" showing the font now in two separate parts: the roughly-hemispherical basin and its metal cover displaced from the baluster-type slender pdedestal base and its square lower base. Given the information above it is not clear or documented whether a font existed in the 11th-century Alleur church, as baptisms were carried out in the mother church until the 19th century [cf. supra]; a font could have existed in the medieval church used, if not for baptisns for the Holy Week liturgy of the water. That font may have been replaced by other(s), including the 19th-century one noted above.