Heilige Petrus' Banden
Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter's Bands. Founded before 1285, in its current form a late Gothic cruciform basilica with built-in tower and modern extension on either side of the choir. The choir, from around 1400, was raised around 1930. The nave, with lower transept, belongs to the Maas Gothic style, around 1450, with cross-ribbed vaults on columns with capitals decorated with water lily leaves. Beautiful tower, restored in 1884 and 1905 (Jos. Th. Cuypers), with ample use of natural stone, diagonal buttresses with recessed fields, natural stone arch friezes in the wall surfaces of the sections of the tower massif, extended staircase tower; high spire, constricted from four to eight sides, crowned by a pear (built in 1714 after the fire of 1699). Inventory: bluestone baptismal font from around 1500; oak pulpit, 18th century, with later evangelist heads and a railing from around 1800; 15th century statues of Catherine and Barbara; statue of St. Anne from around 1750. Painting on panel from around 1700; miraculous multiplication of the loaves. Organ in neo-Gothic case, built by the Mechelen organ builder Loret in 1863. Restored in 1889, 1907 and 1937. Wooden oxal in neo-Gothic style with parapet, supported by corbels, which rest on coupled natural stone columns. In a neo-Gothic case an organ with Hoofdwerk and Onderpositief, built in 1863 by FB Loret. Restored in 1889, 1907 and 1987.
