Saint Roch's Church

Ruggestraat without number. St. Roch's Church. Modern oriented hall church with partly openwork bell tower from 1956 to a design by G. Martijn (Avelgem). In the municipal archives, a building plan was preserved to a design by J. Cock (Kortrijk) that differs slightly from the existing building. Place of worship located in hedged church garden. Circular church path. Red brick building on plinth of cobblestones, partly white-painted bell tower. Slate gable roofs. Nave of seven bays rhythmed by segmental wall openings, lower sacristy of two bays. West façade broken by three stained glass windows in gable, pre-placed portal flanked by two segmental arched wall openings with stained glass windows including facing stone with inscription "DOMUS DEI 1955". East façade with small octagonal wall openings. Bell tower with wooden calvary cross. Mobilair. Main altar: carved and polychrome neo-Gothic altarpiece. According to the literature, presence of wooden, probably 18th-century statue of Saint Roch of Montepellier.

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