From, Beautiful Buildings in France & Belgium, Including many which have been destroyed during the war. Reproductions in Colour and Monochrome from rare old Prints and Drawings, by and after Prout, Boys, Coney, W. Callow, David Roberts, C. Wild and others, with descriptive notes, by C. Harrison Townsend, F.R.I.B.A.; New York: The Hubbell Publishing Co., 1916; pp. 106-109.
GHENT : CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS
(W. Callow, R.W.S.)
HIS reproduction of a charming drawing by Callow gives us his characteristically bright and sunny treatment of the Church of St. Nicholas, in the Marché-aux-Grains. The old covered-in market-stalls, which he shows nestling in between the buttresses, have been swept away, but the busy life of the market still gathers round the building. The church itself, dating back to the Xth century, is one of the oldest in Ghent as regards its actual foundation, but its greater part dates from the beginning of the XVth century, while the interior has been a good deal over-restored and modernized.
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