I have a few pictures of the inside of the church from my archives from a previous vacation. The quality isn't that good. But at least you can see what it looks like inside. Unfortunately, access to the church is uncertain at the moment
2022:
Somewhere in this church was the tomb of the Scottish Princess Mary Stewart. Mary came to Veere in 1444 to marry the son of the Lord of Veere
to marry. She was twelve years old. Her future husband, Wolfert Vl., was fourteen.
Thanks to this family marriage, Veere became a second home for Scottish merchants.
Almost a hundred years later, the town gained exclusive rights to the Scottish wool trade. because
Mary and Wolfert had said yes.
The sun once shone through the stained glass windows. But they were destroyed by French soldiers in 1812. Four wooden floors were added and the church was turned into a military hospital. The small square windows show you where these floors used to be.
That was the time of the French. War raged between England, France and their allies.
In 1809 a British army landed on Walcheren. Veere and Vlissingen were hit by cannonballs
met. Thousands of British soldiers died from Walcheren fever, a combination of malaria, typhoid and dysentery.
After the British left, this church filled with hundreds of French soldiers.
The wounded were brought to Veere from all possible battlefields. Below was a horse stable.
Above it were hospital wards full of soldiers hovering between life and death. Many were not to survive this sickbed.
GRIES, the creepy cat
At one point, a mummy cat lay on a beautiful red cushion in the window of an antique shop in Utrecht. The dead cat was found in the Grote Kerk around 1950. In 1479 it is said to have been walled into the church wall as a building sacrifice.
In the Middle Ages people feared the devil and demons. Church buildings that were not yet completed,
had to be protected from evil. That is why animals were sometimes sacrificed and immured in the wall.