Tower of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
Tower of Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady). The tower, at 401 ft. (122.3 m.) in height, remains the tallest structure in Bruges and the second tallest brickwork tower in the world Built in 1297. Mariastraat.
"Notre Dame (Flem. Onze lieve Vrouwenkerk), another early-Gothic structure, erected on the site of an earlier chapel in the 12-13th centuries. ... The tower, 400 ft. high, was completed in 1297, the spire being restored In 1858 and the turrets at the angles in 1873. The beautiful late-Gothic addition on the N. side (ca.1470) was originally a portal, named 'Het Paradys'. The W. front was restored in 1907".--Baedeker 1910.
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