Hooglandse Kerk

Hooglandse Kerk is a Gothic church in Leiden relationship from the 15th century. The brick church is devoted to St. Pancras and nowadays serves parishioners of the Protestant Church inside the Netherlands. The Bishop of Utrecht ordered the construction of a wooden chapel on December 20, 1314. By 1377 the populace and economic prosperity of Leiden known as for a bigger structure, and creation commenced on the modern shape. The sanctuary become completed in 1391 and the ambulatory in 1415.

The records of the Hooglandse Kerk started whilst the bishop of Utrecht, Gwijde of Avesnes, granted permission on 20 December 1314 for the construction of a timber chapel on the Hooge Land as an annex of the parish church of Leiderdorp. The chapel become dedicated to the sacred Pancratius. A few decades later, this chapel is changed by using a easy stone church with a turret, but with Leiden's strong financial boom, the want for a miles larger church is already growing pretty unexpectedly. During the iconoclasm of August 1566 severa spiritual artifacts and archives were destroyed.