St Elisabeth Church
Beguinage church with thirteenth-century stone columns, a Baroque portal and a carved oak door.
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This guide to the Saint Elisabeth Church in Ghent follows the beguines, the lay religious women who built a walled town of their own around it in the thirteenth century, and the industrial city that grew up against their walls. It brings in Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg, their Catholic protector, and a seventeenth-century woodcarver whose work you can still touch. Start at the Baroque west portal, under the statue of Saint Elisabeth.
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