St Nicholas' Church
Scheldt Gothic church of blue-grey Tournai stone with a lantern crossing tower and Cavaillé-Coll organ.
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This guide to St Nicholas' Church in Ghent starts with a close look at its blue-grey Tournai stone and follows the building from its days as the medieval city's watch post and bell tower into a long, undignified decline. Image-breakers, plastered-over cracks, bricked-up windows and the merchants and skippers who once worshipped here all turn up along the way. Best heard standing right at the outer wall on the Korenmarkt side.
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