Sint-Gorgonius Church, Hoegaarden

Former collegiate church. Beautiful homogeneous building, situated on the hill that dominates the landscape, built in 1744 by the Leuven architect J.A. Hustin. Chronogram on the large cartouche in the west facade of the tower.The plan unfolds three naves of six bays on pillars behind a high tower of bluestone, crowned with an onion-shaped roofing, and two side portals with a baroque influence (shell motifs but also niches and contoured volutes). A long choir, flanked by outbuildings, ends in a semicircular apse that is lit by two window registers. Brick nave, punctuated on the outside by classicist pilasters of bluestone, and sandstone segmental arch windows with few projecting keys. Rich and stately interior enlivened with yellow and white stucco and numerous Louis XV ornaments (keys, cartouches under the entablature, upper wall panels, pillar shafts, belt arches of the barrel vault). Pillars on bluestone bases, crowned with composite capitals decorated with putti heads. Side aisles covered with Bohemian caps.Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Parish Church of Saint-Gorgonius, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/43489

The former rococo collegiate church was built between 1754 and 1759.
The tower and the two west portals were built entirely in Gobertange stone.
Impressive interior including a massive copper choir reader, bluestone, gothic baptismal font and a wooden 'Palmezel statue' from the 16th century.
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You can see the tower from far above the cornfields...