Deventer - Grote Kerk (Lebuinuskerk)

 
According to legend the Deventer's first church was built in 765 by St Lebuinus. This was devastated in 800, and in 1040 Bishop Bernoldus, who had fled from Utrecht to escape the Normans, founded a new church. Of this Romanesque basilica there survive only the crypt, the groined vaulting, two rows of columns with cube capitals and parts of the choir and the east transept.

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In the 15th century a massive Gothic basilica was built (west aisle, tower, ambulatory, Raadskapel and north aisle). The tower (1612) has a Baroque spire by Hendrick de Keyser and a carillon by Francois Hemony (1655).

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