Eke nr. Nazareth
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: Source caption: "Former Sint-Amanduskerk (Church of Saint Amand) in Eke. Eke, Nazareth, East Flanders, Belgium"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LimoWreck, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 24 September 2011 by LimoWreck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eke_-_Former_Sint-Amanduskerk_2.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Links de pastorie met daarnaast de toren van de voormalige Sint-Amanduskerk - Noël Schoorensstraat - Eke - Nazareth - Oost-Vlaanderen - België." -- the former vicarage-cum-school in the foreground, with the tower of the former parish church in the background; a font from the latter stands in the garden of the former
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spotter2, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 May 2019 by Spotter2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pastorie_en_Toren_voormalige_Kerk_-_Eke.jpg] [accessed 23 November 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 19th-century (1859) baptismal font in the new parish church
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Image Source: digital image of a 1943 B&W photograph [cliché A057778] by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw, in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/16174] [accessed 23 November 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25092EKE
Church/Chapel: Voormalige Sint-Amanduskerk in Eke
Church Patron Saints: St. Amand [aka Amandus]
Church Location: Kerkplein, Eke, 9810 Nazareth, Belgium -- Tel.: +32 9 385 42 40
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Oost-Vlaanderen / Flandre Est, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Only the tower of the earlier church remains now, near the Oude Scheldt, off (W) the N260, in the municipality and 3 km E of Nazareth, about 13 km SW of Ghent
Ecclesiastic Region: Bisdom Gent / Diocèse de Gand
Font Location in Church: In the old vicarage garden
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 17th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original church documented 1123; re-built 17th, 18thC; modified 1857; partly demolished but old tower partly retained-- present church built on a new site in 1912, north of the old parish church; badly damaged in WWI; repaired and consecrated in 1933
The entry for the Pastorie Eke in Cultuurregio Leie Schelde [https://cultuurregioleieschelde.be/erfgoedhalte/pastorie-eke/] [accessed 23 November 2023] reports and illustrates the presence of a baptismal font in the garden of the former vicarage and school; it is described as being originally from the old parish church at Eke ["Ondertussen is het gebouw beschermd en krijgt het een nieuwe functie. In de tuin staat de doopvont uit de oude Eekse kerk"]. The font in the old vicarage consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a simple torus-scotia below the upper rim, raised on a pedestal base and a square lowe base; judging by the design it could date anywhere between the 16th and the 19th century, from one of the several re-buildings and modifications of the medieval church. [NB: the baptismal font in the new church is listed in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/38681] [accessed 23 November 2023] as modern, made of marble in the 19th century ["Marmeren 19de-eeuws doopvont"]].
A communication to BSI by Pol Herman (e-mail of 7 January 2023) confirms that the font now in the vicarage, "is mentioned in an inventory made by the priest Franciscus Hamelynck, who was appointed in 1724", and that "The 17th century limestone baptismal font was installed in the garden of the vicarage."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.954991,
3.64264
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 57′ 17.97″ N,
3° 38′ 33.5″ E
UTM: 31U 545137 5645016
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
