Buvrinnes / Belzonium / Berrunnes / Beurnes / Beurunnes / Beverine / Beverna / Beverunes / Buitrunes / Buverines / Buverinnes / Buvrene / Buvrines

Composite baptismal font with a basin of the 16th century listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10040391] [accessed 4 March 2026]: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre [...] gothique [...] hauteur: 115 cm [...] le fût: XVIIè ou XVIIIè[?]".
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 8 February 2026) informs: "Buvrinnes, église Saint-Pierre. 868 Buitrunes, 963 Beurnes, 1015 Berrunnes,1050 Belzonium, XIIème Beurunes, 1181 Beverunes, 1234, 1248 Buverines, 1235 Buvrines, Buverinnes. Beverines, Bevrona, Bevrena.
The name Buitrunes is first mentioned in 868 in the polyptych of Lobbes Abbey. From the possessions of Lobbes, Buvrinnes passed into those of the first Counts of Hainaut, who took advantage of the political instability during the late 9th and 10th centuries. Around 1015, Lambert II, Duke of Lothier, gave the village to count Godfrey and his brother Herman. Before 1029, Emperor Henry II confirmed that count Herman had donated "villa Beurunes in comitatu Hainau" to the Abbey of Saint-Vanne in Verdun. The church of Beverunes was under the civil jurisdiction of the metropolitan chapter of Notre-Dame de Cambrai in 1181. Little is known of what happened in the territory of Buvrinnes. In 1695, the village was ravaged by the troops of Marshal Villeroy. The tower stood separately, outside the church. The gothic building was remarkably well decorated for the importance of the village. Local authorities found it too small and its upkeep too expensive. The building was demolished in 1849, against the advice of the Royal Commission for Historical Monuments: in Buvrinnes, an enormity was committed without any criticism or control, as if the commission didn't exist. A new church in the Neo-Gothic style was built between 1852 and 1854. Baptismal records from 1796 onwards. Composite, octagonal, limestone, 16th century, Hainaut-type basin and base, with a later baroque column. https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/10040391"