Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

Non-oriented neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica at the intersection of Sint-Gillis-, Hulst-, Kieldrechtstraat and Klingedorp. The former cemetery, located behind the choir, was removed in 1971 and replaced by a parking lot. Along the north side a narrow park in front of which is a monument in honour of Jan Frans Van Hove. The first place of worship, a wooden chapel served by the Recolletten Fathers who were expelled from Hulst, was erected here in 1648 and replaced by a stone building in 1670. In 1848 the situation had become so dilapidated that a new church was built to a design by architect Jan De Somme-Servais (Sint-Niklaas). The floor plan reveals a three-aisled transeptless church with a built-in façade tower and polygonal choir with small rectangular sacristies in the armpits. Spacious brick construction with scarce use of natural stone for the cornices and window tracery. Front façade with central pointed arched portal and rood screen window; Eight-sided hatch chamber with lanceolate reverberation holes and slate spire. Lower church of six bays marked by buttresses with two carvings and lit by pointed arch windows with two bars and quatrefoil tracery in the window head. Choir of one straight bay with blind, three-sided apse. In the flat closing wall, small stone built in 1848. Interior with round columns on octagonal bluestone base and crowning leaf capital. Pointed arches. Central nave covered by pointed barrel vault of plaster, with decorative ribs. Side aisles with plaster cross rib vaults. Mobile: Painting: Assumption of Mary (high altar, 17th century, G. The Crayer).

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