Borlo / Berlen / Bôle / Borloe / Borloo / Borlou / Burlo / Burlon / Burlos / Burlou

Baptismal font of the 17th century listed in the Onroerend erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/21661] [accessed 3 May 2026]: "Hardstenen doopvont (17de eeuw)". Listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/74005] [accessed 3 May 2026]: "doopvont [...] hardsteen [...] hoogte: 108 cm [...] Date: 1801 - 1900".
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 9 March 2026) informs: "Borlo, Sint-Petruskerk. Burlo, Burlos, Borlou, Burlou, Burlon (1065), Borlo (1244), Borloe (1558), Borloo, Berlen. "Burlon" was first mentioned in 1065, when Bishop Adalbero III (Alberon) of Metz placed the village under the guardianship of the Abbey of Saint-Truiden. The church of Borlo was first mentioned in 1107. But the first continuator of Rudolph's chronicle (1108-1138) mentions only the mother church of Buvingen: "ecclesia de Bovinges et villa de Burlos". 1139: Mentionned in the charter with the list of parishes subject to offerings and procession to the “croix banaux” of Saint-Trond. Although the Count of Loon wrongly appropriated the guardianship in 1263, the abbot of Sint-Truiden continued to exercise the lordly rights at Borlo. 1532: the abbot of Saint Trond entrusts the parish of Borlo to 3 priests and adds the baptismal rights: ut habeant baptismum. Probably one had to go to Buvingen for baptism before. Upon the death of Martin Sproelants, parish priest of Borloo and Buvingen, in 1579, the two parishes were separated from each other. The first church was completely destroyed by a hailstorm in 1645. Chronicles record: "Everything that grew outdoors was dead; the harvest had completely vanished from the fields; the trees had no leaves, no branches, and not even bark." The abbey's chronicles do not mention what happened to the inhabitants, but it must have been very bad, considering all houses and farms were damaged. The church was completely destroyed; nothing usable remained of the furnishings. No information exists about the style of the first church. After the disaster in 1645, a new wooden church was built. The temporary church remained in use until the construction of a stone church in 1835. After 1762, a canon of the Saint Lambert Chapter of Liège was Lord of Borlo. The neoclassical Saint Peter's Church was built in 1835. Baptismal records start in 1706. Unusual square limestone font basin. Local historians date the font 17th c. KIK-IRPA : 19th. https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/74005".