Saint Peter's Church

The Saint Peter's Church is a church building in Lauw in the Belgian municipality of Tongeren in the province of Limburg. The church is located on Lauwstraat, the main street through the village. About 50 meters to the south, on the other side of the street, lies the higher walled cemetery.
The neo-Gothic building consists of a prominent west tower with three sections and a twisted spire, a basilica-style nave with three bays, a transept with three-sided closure of both transept arms, and a five-sided closed choir with a straight bay. The tower is equipped with set-off buttresses and has a polygonal stair tower on the south side. On the north side of the tower is an octagonal baptistery and on the south side is a portal. In the west façade of the tower is a pointed arch portal with a rose window above it, and there are pointed arch bell openings in each façade. The central nave is covered by a gable roof with slates and the two side aisles have shed roofs. The entire building is constructed of brick and finished with hard stone and marlstone for corner blocks and decorative elements. The different building parts all have buttresses that mark the bays and have pointed arch windows with tracery. The central nave also has pointed arch clerestory windows. The choir is lower, has a gable roof, is flanked by sacristies, and on the north side is a polygonal stair tower. The transept arms have brick friezes below the cornices. Between the central nave and the two side aisles is a pointed arch arcade on clustered columns. Beneath the clerestory is a triforium. The vaulting of the building is done with ribbed vaults on colonnettes.

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