Pieterskerk
Romanesque basilica of single-block red sandstone pillars, with a rare crypt holding its founder's coffin.
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This guide to the Pieterskerk in Utrecht follows Bishop Bernold, the eleventh-century churchman who planned a cross of churches around the Dom and made this one its eastern arm. It reaches from his death in ten fifty-four to a French-speaking Protestant congregation digging in the choir in sixteen fifty-six, and to the summer storm of sixteen seventy-four that tore at the west front. Stand in the nave among the red sandstone pillars, facing the steps up to the choir.
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