Seven Sorrows Chapels

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Near the entrance to the cemetery are so-called Seven Sorrow Chapels dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, donated to the parish in 1912-1914 by some benefactors. Series of seven, interconnected brick chapels, crowned with three-sided natural and artificial stone pediment, preceded by heavy pillar with capital and spherical ornament. Glazed basket-arched niches in vitrified brick frames, with plaster sculpture group depicting one of the seven sorrows; bluestone leak thresholds and ditto memorial stone per chapel. Cemetery with calvary of cement rustic.

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Source: Plomteux, Greet (2002)

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Author: Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen

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Kerkdreef, Rijkevorsel

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