Baggaertshof

* The Baggaertshof. Protected as a monument by royal decree of 20.02.1939. A series of thirteen small houses and a chapel, grouped around a rectangular walled herb garden, also with various trees including a false acacia, a hazel, a elder, holly and a rare white mulberry tree. The herb garden was (re)established in 1981. Founded in 1638, at the request of Jossine Baggaert, see naming, who purchased thirteen houses for poor and needy women, and gifted it to the city in 1643. Protected as a monument since 1939. Restored from 1979 to 1981 under the direction of architects J. and C. Viérin (Kortrijk). Second restoration in 1989. The courtyard is accessible via a passage leading to a cobbled yard with a pump. To the right of the passage is the house of the "caretaker" and to the left a larger house that was intended for the heirs of J. Baggaert. Thirteen small single-storey houses with two bays under a (Flemish) gabled roof. White-painted anchored brick construction on a plinth. Barred cross windows. The original interior has been preserved in several houses. Very simple interior with a floor of Boomse tiles. Beam roofing with tie and child beams. Simple beam supports. Wide plastered chimney with a wooden chimney beam. To the west, a single-aisle brick chapel dedicated to St. Dymphna. Anchored, white-painted brick construction under a gabled roof. Gable ends with weaving patterns. Polygonal arch portal in a natural stone frame above which is an oeil-de-boeuf under a drip ledge covered with tiles. Sidewalls rhythmically punctuated by two polygonal arch windows with stained glass. Plastered interior, vaulted by a truncated barrel vault. Marble floor. Altar with a niche containing a wooden polychrome statue of Our Lady of the Elms, sculpted in 1626 by the master sculptor J. Bolle Veys (Kortrijk) and painted by Joos Van Moerkercke (Kortrijk). The statue was restored in 1708 by J. Brandefer and restored in 1998 by H. Vanden Borre. Number 35. A house located on the street, intended as a residence for the heirs of J. Baggaert. A wide house with three bays and one storey under a tiled gable roof. Central dormer. Painted brick facade on a plinth. Barred cross windows under a wooden lintel. Unterdorpels made of tiles. Rectangular door with a transom light, under a wooden lintel, above which is a round-arched niche.

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