Description
Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows, on the Bosstraat in Elsegem. Chapel from 1878, built by Mr. Delbeke as a thank you for the healing of his child, rebuilt on a grander scale in 1886. Place of pilgrimage.
At the rear, a semicircle chapel surrounded by linden trees and a hedge, iron gate to access path between pollard willow-shaped pillars.
Neo-Gothic chapel in plastered brick construction with decorative anchors and false joints on projecting plinth; gable roof (tile roof, ridge perpendicular to the street) with bell tower crowned with iron cross. Decoratively elaborated wooden eaves. Profiled pointed arched wing door with fanlight with iron rod division. Rear facade with gable-high bent buttresses. Glazed pointed-arched statue niche in gable top with polychrome plaster statue of Mary.
Side facades with pointed arched coupled windows with iron rod division and continuous sill, separated by gable-high angled buttresses. Cartouche with "Anno/ 1878-1886" in bas-relief in left side wall.
Interior: tiled walls, altar with Pieta, "Need seeks comfort" and other polychrome plaster statues of saints, including Holy Family, Sacred Heart, Saint Anthony, Saint Vincent a Paulo.
Elsegem, Rectory, Liber Memorialis.
Source : Verbeeck M. & Tack A. 1998: Inventory of cultural heritage in Belgium, Architecture Province of East Flanders, District of Oudenaarde, Canton of Oudenaarde, Building through the ages in Flanders 15N2, Brussels - Turnhout.
Authors : Tack, Anja, Verbeeck, Mieke
Date : 1998