Saint Michael's Church

Saint Michael's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Ghent, Belgium constructed in a late Gothic style. It has rich interior decoration. Documents from 1105 testify to the life at the website online of a chapel devoted to St. Michael which changed into subordinate to another parish. The building changed into two times destroyed with the aid of hearth early in the 12th century and rebuilt. From 1147 it changed into recognized as an impartial parochial church. Construction of the contemporary past due Gothic church changed into possibly started out in 1440, and took place in stages, separated with the aid of a long c language. During the first section, in the 15th and 16th centuries, the western part of the building changed into built, consisting of the tower, the 3-aisled nave and transept.

This was finished in 1528. The construction of the western tower persisted and by means of 1566 tiers of the tower were finished. Then, because of religious conflicts, now not simplest did construction forestall, but looting and destruction came about. Part of the church turned into destroyed in 1578 by Calvinists and in 1579 the old choir became demolished.