Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Nortre Dame or Church of Our Lady). Erected on the site of an earlier chapel in the 12th-13th centuries. 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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