St James' Church
Romanesque-rooted parish church with mismatched west towers and a Gothic crossing tower spire.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Saint James' Church in Ghent treats the building as a physical object that refuses to stay finished, from a fire around fourteen hundred that left its west front lopsided to a floor that has crept upward over the centuries. It also follows a summer week in nineteen ninety-six, just before the Ghent Festival, when a hot-air balloon drifted toward the spire. Listen from the square in front of the west towers, where you can compare the two.
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