Saint Louis College

So-called "St. Louis College". Former house "Ryngaut", built in 1714 and sold in 1850 to the diocese of Ghent to establish the current college. Since the restoration of 1907 under the direction of architect H. van den Broucke, a decapitated brick frame façade of six bays and two storeys under gable roof with wide overhang (slates) and equipped with two skylights with swinging in and out top and triangular pediment. Natural stone pedestal. All windows are shuttered arched cross frames in a flat frame with ears, noses, a keystone and grained water frame. In the first bay, a basket arch gull-wing door surmounted by a cross-arched two-light window with hanging volutes; in the fifth bay, shoulder-arched door with two-tiered skylight with a keystone, a grained water frame and hanging volutes; The latter also occur at the bottom of the rects of the door. The roof window above the first bay is an imitation of this above the fourth and fifth bays, which, however, is wider and possesses two windows and an oval oculus with flat wing pieces. Memorial stone in the corridor: "Collegium Sancti Ludovici Anno Dni. 1909 Instauratum". Salon on the ground floor with Louis XVI interior: panelling with hunting scenes painted on canvas; hunting trophies in bas-relief. On the playground, spacious single-aisled cross chapel, with the choir facing south. Neo-Gothic brick building, according to 1876 (nave), extended in 1936 with transept arms and polygonal apse. Nave of four bays, marked by slender buttresses and lancet windows with simple tracery of brick. Over-angled brick frieze as a façade end. Against the built-in façade, square bluestone memorial stone with bishop's sign of Mgr. M. van der Noot and motto "Anno - Respice Finem - 1769". Transept arms and seven-sided choir, in analogue style. Interior with plastered cross rib vaults, otherwise completely modernized. VAN DRIESSCHE R., VERSTEGEN V., Valuable Lokeren, Lokeren, 1977, p. 45-47 VAN WINCKEL H., 125 years Sint-Lodewijkscollege, De Souvereinen, jg. 6/3, 1975, p. 77-83.

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