Aywaille / Aiwêye / Aqualia

A communication to BSI by Pol Herman (e-mail of 19 November 2025) provides detailed backgound to the vicissitudes of the church here since its inception in the 9th century, a litany of destruction and re-building until its secularisation and sale in 1785 when the church finally disappeared. In 1945 the coverage of the parochial needs of Aywaille was covered by the church of Dieupart, a former hamlet of Aywaille, which has become the parish church for the area that then included Aywaille; part of the materials from the ruined Aywaille church were used in the re-building of the current Dieupart church which was inaugurated in 1960 with a new baptismal font of the 20th century.
The base of a 16th-century baptismal font is identified in the BALaT KIK-IRPA entry [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10108320] [accessed 21 November 2025] as originally from the baptismal font of the church at Dieupart: "provenant de l'ancienne base des fonts baptismaux de l'église de Dieupart"; the object appears to have the common shape expected from a 16th-century stone font, with stops at the corners to turn the shape square on the lower volume. Further details are given in the KIK-IRPA entry: "Date: 1501 - 1600 [...] hauteur: 84 cm; largeur: 65 cm; profondeur: 56 cm". [NB: see BSI entry for Dieupart for related complementary information]