Pieterskerk

     
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The north transept. Looming over surrounding houses built up against the church in the 17th century, the transepts were the last major part of the church to be completed. Construction in the present form dates from after the collapse of the tower. Circumstantial evidence suggests that Rombout Keldermans II, one of the Low Countries' most important architects, may have provided the design. The date 1565 is painted along a ceiling beam, one year before the iconoclastic riots that violently brought an end to Catholic tradition throughout the Low Countries. The brick facing and the slanted molding on the stair turret indicate the plan to add an aisle and a chapel, never built beyond foundation level.