Saint Lawrence Church

Westendelaan no. Parochial Church of St. Lawrence. North-south oriented church amidst a grassy garden, formerly a cemetery, cf. two preserved tomb monuments to the west; accessible via paved path; surrounding brick sidewalk. On the street side, low wall under a saddleback roof, with two brick pilasters. The war monument in front commemorates the victims of World War I. Calvary to the southeast. Place of worship in neo-Gothic style, designed by architects C. Pil & H. Carbon (Ostend) from 1920, rebuilt in 1922. The floor plan reveals a freestanding south tower; a three-nave ship of six bays, a pseudo-transept, a choir of one bay with a flat closure; one western sacristy; at the height of the second bay: an eastern baptismal chapel and a western entrance portal. Yellow brick construction, slate gabled roofs. South tower of four sections, separated by surrounding cornices; crowning slate spire; small tower to the west; superimposed corner buttresses with cuts. Base with pointed, profiled portal under a drip ledge above which sections with respectively two paired pointed arch windows and three pointed arch casements; upper section with two paired pointed-arched bell openings above which are blind oculi and four clock faces. Flat parapet with crowning corner spires. Eastern and western facades: rhythmically interrupted by buttresses with cuts, terminating in finials; paired pointed arch windows under a continuous drip ledge; gable ends with an angled apex at the height of the pseudo-transept. Northern and southern facades: gable ends with projecting eaves; diagonal buttresses, leading to a small tower; paired pointed arch windows above which are oculus and cruciform casement. Western portal under gabled roof; gable end containing a Tudor-arched door above which is a pointed arch niche with a Sacred Heart statue. Interior: unplastered hall church, rhythmically accented by pointed-arch transverse arches on round columns with octagonal bases. Wooden pointed barrel vaults, equipped with purlins. Flat-ceilinged west tower. Furniture: neo-Gothic including pulpit, baptismal font, churchwarden's chair, and side altars designed by architects Pil & Carbon (Ostend) from 1924. GENERAL STATE ARCHIVE BRUSSELS, DVG., nos. 12.389 and 12.390.

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