Chapel of Our Lady of Comfort in Distress

Kapellestraat z.nr. Chapel "Our Lady of Comfort in Need", built after World War I to replace an 18th-century thanksgiving chapel that, according to tradition, was founded by a wealthy landowner who survived a robbery. Already represented as a chapel on the Ferraris map (1770-1778) and as "chapelle Troost en nood" on the Atlas der Buurtwegen (ca. 1843). Between 1880 and 1886, with the financial support of Marie Gilliodts, the 18th-century chapel was significantly enlarged into a single-nave neo-Gothic place of worship of three bays, preceded by a lower portal volume. After World War I, only this low portal volume was rebuilt as a chapel. Simple brick roadside chapel under a mansard roof on a rectangular floor plan flanked by two Italian poplars. Round-arched receding brick door surround. Interior. Sober white-painted interior with plastered barrel vault. Altar with statue of Our Lady, separated by iron railing. DECOUTERE A., Kaaskerke with its war monuments and chapels, in Den Dyzere, year 7, no. 4, pp. 16-21. DEMOEN H., The Diksmuide of then, A collection of concise historical data, supplemented with historical photographs and postcards, Bruges, 1984., p. 90.

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