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A baptismal font that was originally a holy-water stoup made of marble in the 17th century is reported in this church; the Voorloopige lijst der Nederlandsche monumenten van geschiedenis en kunst. Deel VIII, II. De provincie Limburg (Meerloo-Zwalmen), Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, Den Haag / A. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1926, refers to a visitation report of 1650 to this church, which gives a dismal description of the site: There is an altar, in which a stone decorated with a cross in the centre, and it seems that there is a sepulchrum (resting place for relics) under that cross; there are no cloths on the altar; there is also no chalice, no paten, no ampoule, no corporale, no bursa, no holy water font, no baptismal font and no baptismal basin, no ornaments necessary for the celebration of the Mass, no missal, no gradual, no pastoral, no register of the baptized, the formed, the married, and the dead, no oil for the sick, no chrism, no catechumen oil; the parish became independent around 1820. [NB: it is not 100% certain that the present veined marble font had been originally intended as a liturgical furnishing]. A further communication from Pol Herman to BSI regarding the material of which this object is made (e-mail of 3 March 2022): "In the meantime, the Belgian Geological Department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences has given me the following assessment based on the pictures: This presumably holy water font is a “griotte flammée”, a beautiful deep red “griotte marble” consisting of homogeneously distributed "stromatactis" fossils that show a parallel orientation when viewed from the inside of the vessel, hence the name flamed. This marble has a homogeneous structure because there are few white veins or other biogenic structures that would give it a busier appearance. This red marble comes from quarries of red marble (fossilized tropical marine reefs) in a zone from Marche-en-Famenne (in the Belgian Ardennes) to Rance (on the Belgian-France border), with the area south of Philippeville as the epicenter. Griotte with stromatactis represents a certain phase in the reef build-up and is therefore ecosystem-bound and not plate-determined. More information in the following book: De Ceukelaire, M.; Doperé, F.; Dreesen, R.; Dusar, M.; Groessens, E.; collab. Boulvain, F.; Coen-Aubert, M.; Tourneur, F.; Peltier, F., 2014. Belgisch marmer. Academia Press, 292 p. (ISBN 9789098223117)