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Church of Our Lady

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk

The Church of Our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk) in Bruges is a large brick Gothic parish church with a 115.6 m tower that dominates the city skyline. Built mainly between the 13th and 15th centuries, the interior contains vaulted naves, multiple side chapels and important funerary monuments and artworks, including Michelangelo's marble Madonna and Child.

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First raised

1210

Its prime

1514

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1514

What Church of Our Lady looked like in its prime.

A vast brick Gothic basilica dominated by a slender 115.6-metre brick tower with tall vertical lancet openings, blind recessed arches and a pointed spire with pinnacles and cross. The chevet is supported by pronounced flying buttresses; the apsidal end has large pointed tracery windows. Walls are warm red-brown brick with bluestone dressings; steep grey-blue slate roofs cap chapels and aisles. The church sits behind a low stone bridge and cobbled approach framed by small clipped trees and a walled churchyard, well preserved.

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8 places to explore in 1514.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Church of Our Lady, including 5 interiors: central nave beneath cross-vaulting, high choir with encomiast tombs of the burgundian princes, cappella sacra (southern chapel) with michelangelo's madonna and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Stone bridge and cobbled approach facing the chevetChevet under flying buttressesBase of the main tower and adjoining south transeptCentral nave beneath cross-vaultingHigh choir with encomiast tombs of the Burgundian princesCappella sacra (southern chapel) with Michelangelo's MadonnaLanchalskapel and surviving funerary monumentCrossing and the 'hemelgat' hoisting aperture

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