Meerbeck No. 2 / Meerbeke
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Meerbeke, Parochiekerk Sint-Pieter). Interior."
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Image Source: digital photograph 16 November 2021 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_141987_B_Meerbeke.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ninove - Meerbeke - Halsesteenweg 44 - Parochiekerk Sint-Pieter"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johan Allard, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 August 2011 by Johan Allard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ninove_-_Meerbeke_-_Halsesteenweg_44_-_Parochiekerk_Sint-Pieter.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Meerbeke, Parochiekerk Sint-Piet. Ninove. Oost-Vlaanderen. Belgium. Binnenzicht van het schip."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 16 November 2021 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_141896_B_Meerbeke.jpg] [accessed 1 November 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25017MEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1600-1620?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early?)
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parochiekerk Sint-Pieter / Sint-Pieter en Sint-Berlindiskerk, Meerbeke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Previous Font Location(s): Sint-Theresia church in Ninove [Sint-Theresia church was severely damaged by fighting on 3th of September 1944, and was never repaired]
Church Address: Halsesteenweg 44. Meerbeke, 9402 Ninove, Belgium
Site Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N28, in the municiaplity and just SE of Ninove
Additional Comments: moved font (from Ninove church to Meerbeke)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin with plain sides and gadrooned underbowl, raised on a round baluster-type pedestal base decorated with fluting on the upper half and foliage on the lower part; on a tiny round lower base. No cover present. Said to be originally from the badly damaged in 1944 church of Sint-Theresia church in Ninove.
A comunication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 28 November 2025) notes that almost identical baptismal fonts stand in the village churches of Aspelare, Elene, Meerbeke, Sint-Antelinks, Borchtlombeek, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove and Pamel, all of them in the same area. There must have been a local workshop at that time.
A comunication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 28 November 2025) notes that almost identical baptismal fonts stand in the village churches of Aspelare, Elene, Meerbeke, Sint-Antelinks, Borchtlombeek, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove and Pamel, all of them in the same area. There must have been a local workshop at that time.
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 573270 5630818
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.824444, 4.040278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 49′ 28″ N, 2′ 25″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: rop
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining