St. Saviour’s Cathedral is Bruges’ oldest parish church
(12th-15th century). Worth seeing are the gobelins, the choir,
rood loft with organ (1619-1717), choir stalls and numerous fine
paintings. Cathedral Museum: old paintings and retables, brass
tomb plates and reliquaries.
The oldest traces
of the cathedral of Saint Saviour in Bruges bring us back to the
9th century. The main parts of the church are built in so-called
Gothic of the Schelde style of the 14th century.
This cathedral has some special places worth seeing. We call here
the late Gothic choir stalls (1430), the pulpit in the style of
Louis XVI, the baroque rood loft with the impressive organ, the
chapel of Saint Jacob (now baptistery) with the murals from the
end of the 13th century until 1576, the paintings of the flemish
school (14th - 17th century), the tapestries from the 18th century
and so on.
Work started on Bruges'
oldest parish church in the 10th century but after being destroyed
by fire, rebuilt and alterations and additions made in the 13th
and 14th centuries, it displays a mixture of styles.
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