Hunnegem
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Priorij van Hunnegem in Geraardsbergen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2005 by Bebob2009 / Erwin Van Pottelberge [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PriorijHunnegem.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2023]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hunnegem. Geraardsbergen. Oost-Vlaanderen. Belgium. De kerk, het koor. Former abbay. . Cultural heritage; Cultural heritage|Monuments|Abbey/convent/monastery; Cultural heritage|Techniques|Mural painting/fresco; Cultural heritage|Techniques|Painting; Europe|Belgium; Europe|Belgium|Oost-Vlaanderen; Europe|Belgium|Oost-Vlaanderen|Geraardsbergen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 18 September 2020 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_126717_B_Geraardsbergen.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24977HUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Hunnegem / Priorij Hunnegem
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Hunnegem, 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Located off the N42, now part of Geraardsbergen, NNE of Lessines, 55-60 km from Charleroi
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: stone church built ca. 1050 may have replaced a wooden one from the late-7thC; parish dissolved 1515; Hunnegem church is taken over by Benedictine nuns; tower demolished; church becomes cloister and school
Font Notes:
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A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 20 November 2022) informs of two sources for details of this former parish church: the Erfgoedobject site [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/8378 [accessed 5 October 2023] and the Wikipedia entry for Hunnegem [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunnegem] [accessed 5 October 2023]. Neither of them mentions the baptismal font that must have existed in it: "David Larmuseau, author of the book “Hunnegem, het kloppende hart van Geraardsbergen”, is of the opinion that there must have been a baptismal font at the church of Hunnegem. Of which no trace has been found yet."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.78019, 3.89946
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 48.68" N, 3° 53′ 58.05" E