St Nicholas Church View is a photograph by Joan Carroll which was uploaded on November 24th, 2013.
St Nicholas Church View
Never one to miss a good tower climb, we climbed up the Belfry in Ghent Belgium on a beautiful autumn morning, to be rewarded with this fabulous view... more
by Joan Carroll
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Title
St Nicholas Church View
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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Never one to miss a good tower climb, we climbed up the Belfry in Ghent Belgium on a beautiful autumn morning, to be rewarded with this fabulous view of St Nicholas Church and the Ghent skyline. Despite the workaday hustle and bustle on the streets below, only 2 other people visited this tower view while we were here, leaving us lots of time to enjoy and photograph. It's a tight fit in places as you walk around, so lucky for us! The solitude made for an otherwordly feel, almost as if we were viewing a picture. St. Nicholas' Church is one of the oldest and most prominent landmarks in Ghent, Belgium. Begun in the early 13th century as a replacement for an earlier Romanesque church, construction continued through the rest of the century in the local Scheldt Gothic style (named after the nearby river). Typical of this style is the use of blue-gray stone from the Tournai area, the single large tower above the crossing, and the slender turrets at the building's corners. The church belonged to the powerful traders of Ghent, who did their business in the nearby harbor. Saint Nicholas is also the patron saint of the traders. The church did not survive the centuries without damages. In 1566, during the Iconoclasm, a group of Protestants destroyed all the gothic decorations because they no longer believed in worshipping statues and paintings. Numerous churches in the Low Countries underwent the same fate. During the French Revolution, when the country was attacked by the French revolutionary army, the Saint Nicholas church was degraded and used as a horses stable. After many discussions the restoration of the church was started in the 19th century. The building looked like a ruin and nobody was sure what the church originally had looked like. This reconstruction still continues today. In the meantime, the Saint Nicholas church can again be counted to the most impressive monuments of Ghent.
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November 24th, 2013
