The monumental pulpit, sculpted in 1721-1723 by Michiel Vervoort (1667-17-37) from Antwerp. It was first placed in the conventional church of the Nobertine nuns of Leliendael (Bruul, actual Jesuit church), there it stood at full width against a plain wall. After the French revelution it was transferred to the cathedral in 1809 and Jan Frans [...]
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St Rumbold’s Cathedral – The Pulpit
9 Comments CherryPie on Apr 24th 2014
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St Rumbold’s Cathedral – High Altar
The main altar of white marble and black tough-stone is a present of arch-bishop Andreas Cruesen (1657-1666) whose white armorial bearings draw attention on the black bases of the columns. The sculptor-architect Lucas Fayd’herbe (1617-1697), built the porch-altar according to a design of willem Hees or Hesius (1601-1690). The still simple and equilibrated [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 23rd 2014
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St Rumbold’s Cathedral
St Rumbold’s Cathedral was built in the thirteenth century. From the outset it was larger and more impressive than all the other parish churches and later on it became ‘the church of the archbishops’. Originally there was a triple-nave cruciform church on the site of the vast cathedral. Only after a series of building campaigns [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Apr 22nd 2014
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Happy Easter
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 20th 2014
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Inner Courtyard…
…of the Town Hall complex.
4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 19th 2014
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The Palace of the Great Council
16 Comments CherryPie on Apr 18th 2014
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Mechelen Town Hall
The present day Town Hall in Mechelan is situated on the Grote Markt:
It consists of two parts: the cloth hall with unfinished belfry and the Palace of the Great Council. Why wasn’t the belfry ever finished? The cloth trade went into decline in the fourteenth century and there wasn’t the money to complete the building. [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Apr 17th 2014
