A primarily Gothic building (15th-16th century) surrounded by a beautiful churchyard wall and shady trees. The floor plan unfolds a three-bay nave, a projecting transept, and a polygonal choir in the northeast flanked by a sacristy. A massive iron sandstone tower reinforced by heavy buttresses (1511-1514 according to archival texts) with an adjoining semi-octagonal stair turret in the southwest; a facade with an axial portal (formerly dated 1559 on the castle) beneath a large, flamboyant three-light window. A later spire.

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The "Sint-Pieterskerk" was dedicated to Saint Peter (Pieter). Simon, nicknamed Petrus (rock), was a fisherman on Lake Genesareth when he - together with his brother Andreas - was called by …

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Location: Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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