Pieterskerk

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We enter the church at the north transept door, which opens on this view to the south transept window. The two huge windows of the transepts were once filled with glass commissioned ca. 1560 as donations from the Bishop of Utrecht and from a Haarlem priest, Jan Wit. The bishop's window was carried out by Gerrit or Pieter Boels in Leuven (Louvain), who had also made the west window at Haarlem to designs by Barent van Orley. Jan Wit's window was made at Haarlem by Willem Willemsz. Thybaut, whose series of windows from Leiden's archery guild hall, depicting Counts of Holland, is now in the Leiden Municipal Museum, "De Lakenhal."