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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in BALaT KIK-IRPA [https://balat.kikirpa.be/object/71769] [accessed 9 February 2024]: "doopvont [...] hardsteen [...] Date: 1841 - 1860 [...] hoogte: 160 cm" [NB: the height includes that of the font cover]. The entry for this church in the Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed [https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/80653] [accessed 9 February 2024] mentions a baptismal font made of granite in the mid-19th century, topped with a font cover made of brass in the 17th century; it notes that the font was earlier in the baptistery but has been in the chancel since 1984 ["Granieten doopvont uit het midden van de 19de eeuw met geelkoperen deksel uit de 17de eeuw, voorheen in de doopkapel, sinds 1984 in het koor"]. The entry in Erfgoedplus.be [https://www.erfgoedplus.be/details/KF.objecten.1622] [accessed 9 February 2024] however, gives the date range for the font as "1675 - 1699". The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin of dark partly polisjed limestone, a pronounced moulding at the upper rim, the underbowl patterned with flat ribs; it is raised on a round baluster-shaped pedestal base of lighter stone, with mouldings at each end. The dome-shaped font cover is graded on the sides and has a large orb-and-cross finial. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 17 September 2023) remarks on the disagreement on the dating in the sources, and adds: "Erfgoedplus 1675-1699 seems stylistically correct and would fit the church history, KIK-IRPA 1841-1860 probably wrong".