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St. Martin. YPRES. 4. Route. 45
The unpretentious structure between the Nieuwerk and the N.
end of the Cloth Hall is the Stedehuus or Town Hall (Hotel de Ville),
dating originally from the 44th cent. but altered more than once
after the fire of 1498. Of the two old Gothic timber gables in the
court, that to the left belongs to the Salle Echevinale.
The t e Halles is in the town-hall, opposite St. Martin’s
yen 9-12 & 2-5; porter on first floor; 4/ofr.). The former Salle
in the middle of the Nieuwerk, has been restored in the modern
It is adorned with frescoes by Guffens and Swerts, painted in
al Entry of Philip the Bold of Burgundy and his wife, the last
8, in 1334, and other scenes from the town’s history),
e modern chimney-piece by Malfait, and some old wall-
paintings (restored) of the Counts of Flanders (4322-4468) and SS. Mark
and Jobn. All these are best seen by afternoon-light. The wooden ceiling
should b d. — The u r floor of the Cloth Hall consists of three
hug h timber ci The E. half of the S. wing, which
i vo parts by fry, is embellished with twelve mural
‘d. Pauwels (48
Th
representing the chief events in the
history of Ypres. ns with the foundation of the Hospital
of the V n in 1187 and ends with the siege of 1383 (p. 44). One of the
most po depicts the r ses of the plague in 1847. The
embellishr - half, with allegorical paintings representing the
manufactu (d. 1891), has not been finished. The W.
i n facade of a Gothic house (45th cent.).
l Archives are accessibleon Mon. & Tues., 9-12 &2-4.
The former cathedral of *St. Martin (PI. B, C, 3), rising to the
N. opposite the Halles, was built in the 13th cent. on the site of an
earlier edifice founded in 1073; the choir, in the Transition style,
dates from 1221, the early-Gothic nave and aisles from 1254. The
unfinished tower, 190 ft. high, was added after 1433 by Martin
Uutenhove of Malir The plain chapel on the S. side was an ad-
dition of 14622. The S. transept, the lower part of which was unskil-
fully restored about 1860, has a magnificent rose-window, a hand-
some gable, and an elaborately carved late-Gothic portal. Between
the pillars of the W. porch is a triumphal arch, constructed in 1600
by Urban Taillebert of Ypres. The church is now being thoroughly
restored
The Inrertor, a bas
317 ft. long and 168 ft. y
ilica with slender round pillars and a triforium, is
de. — At the beginning of the N. aisle is a brazen
font in the Ren ance style (16th cent.). — The S. a separated from
I parish apel and the chapel of St. Anna by a brazen screen
), with alabaster statuettes of saints. The first-named chapel contains
tare by Jan Thomas (‘van Yperen’), a pupil of Rubens, representing an
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¢ kneeling before the Virgin (1645), and another, by F. P, Hals
» Tepresenting the raising of the siege of 1649 through the inter-
position of the Virgin. Opp
in an exuberant baroque style.
The beautiful choir, which has neither ambulatory nor chapels, con-
tains some fine late-Renaissance choir-stalls, carved by Urban Taillebert
in 1598. Over the baroque high-altar is an Assumption ascribed to Luca
Giordano. To the left is the late-Gothic monument of Louise de Laye,
widow of Hugonet, Chancellor of Burgundy (p. 69). The tomb of Bishop
Ant. de Hennin is by Taillebert (1622). A small flat stone in front of the
altar of St. Martin marks the grave of Jansenius (d. 1638), Bishop of Ypres,
founder of the sect named after him (see p. 438). — In the sacristy are
some fine old ecclesiastical vessels.
e the St. Anna Chapel is the pulpit, carved |
