Open Churches Days at
Sint-Niklaas
Tieltseweg 2
3202 Rillaar (Aarschot)
Church | | | Catholic Church
Exhibition of liturgical objects and clothing
Exhibition
31 May 2025 : 09.00 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 16.0001 June 2025 : 09.00 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 16.00
Exhibition of colourful liturgical vestments and precious metalwork from long and not so long ago.
Price
Free contributionContact
Filip Vos+32 494 79 95 25
kerkraad-gelrode-rillaar@outlook.com
Other events at Sint-Niklaas
Guided tour of church attic and tower
31 May 2025 : 09.00 - 12.00 et 13.00 - 16.0001 June 2025 : 09.00 - 12.00 et 13.00 - 16.00
Enter the church attic in small groups and climb to the top of the bell tower. You must be at least 8 years old and have good mobility to negotiate narrow passages, uneven surfaces, stairs and ladders.
More about this church
Description
Inside, you are struck by the spacious octagonal dome, 21.5 metres high. The sense of space is enhanced by the design of the “hall church”. The large windows and white-painted walls provide bright vibrant light that subtly highlights the white neo-Renaissance portico-head altar of 1872. The church possesses a fine collection of late medieval polychromed statues in Gothic or folklore style. Fascinating ones include the triumphal group or calvary, Christ on the cold stone and Our Lady with Child, whose maker's name “Maître de la Madonne de Piétrebais”, projects us 500 years back in time. The stained-glass windows with saints by glazier Ferdinand Crickx from the early interwar period and by Frans Hermans from the 1950s breathe the same rural atmosphere.
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