architecture

Little Beguinage, Church Our Lady ter Hooyen

Ghent, Flanders, Belgium

Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ter Hoyekerk [Dutch]
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Presentatiekerk [Dutch]

Architecture

higher-level structure
Little Beguinage
built
1654-1658
style/period
Renaissance, Early Baroque, Baroque
work type
Roman Catholic church
form/concept
rectangular plan, Christian basilica
material
brick, sandstone
technique
masonry
architect / constr. phase
1720
construction of the Baroque facade under Isabella van Hoorebeke
patronage
Philipotte Dijsembaert, Rochus de Scheemaecker

Architecture: Little Beguinage

full/alternative names
Beguinage Our Lady ter Hooyen
built
1234
culture
Flemish, Belgian, Christian
style/period
Medieval
work type
beguinage, building complex
patronage
Joan of Constantinople

Geography

Europe » Western Europe » Belgium » Flanders » East Flanders » Ghent » Ghent (sub-municipality)
local language location name
location:
Gent [Dutch]
Gand [French]
country:
België [Dutch]
Belgique [French]
Belgien [German]
historical affiliations
1658-1795
Holy Roman Empire
1658-1714
Spanish Netherlands
1714-1795
Austrian Netherlands
1795-1815
France
1815-1830
United Kingdom of the Netherlands

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Petit Béguinage de Gent (Gand)
type
cultural
criteria
II, III, IV
designation
reference
855-008