Parish Church of Saint Apollonia

Parish church of the Parish Stelen-Liessel-Winkelomheide founded in 1871. Church designed in 1869 by P.J. Taeymans, registered on the land register in 1874, later tower designed in 1929 by J. Taeymans; surrounding and hedged cemetery with commonwealth war graves to the northeast. Northwest: memorial stone commemorating the battle of Geel in 1944 in which the 50th Northumberian Infantry Division fought for the passage across the Alber Canal, originally set up on the Albert Canal. Oriented neo-Romanesque cruciform basilica with west tower of four sections under tent roof, three-aisled nave of five bays, flat enclosed transept of two bays and choir of two straight bays with lower apse, semicircular side choirs and polygonal sacristy and annexe.

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