Oud-Nieuwvliet / Sint-Pieter / Sinte-Pier

INFORMATION

Font ID: 24030NIE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic

Church / Chapel Name: [disappeared church]

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Notes: church dedicated to St. Peter probably disappeared in the 1530s floods

Church Address: NB: site of the disappeared church: Kapelleweg, 4504 PC Nieuwvliet, Netherlands

Site Location: Zeeland, Netherlands, Europe

Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church is located off Kapelleweg, just S of Sint Jandijk, 2 km W of present Nieuwvliet, in the municipality of Sluis, about 6 km NNW of Oostburg

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared 16thC church)

Font Notes: Click to view

A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 31 May 2022) informs of a disappeared 16th-century church in Oud-Nieuwvliet.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 530451 5691557

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.375258, 3.433392