Lier - Sint-Gummaruskerk

The church contains some outstanding art treasures.

Among them is the late Gothic choir screen carved out of light sandstone by the Mechelen sculptors Mynsheeren and Wischavens (1536-1539) depicting the story of the Passion, evangelists and churchmen. The small turret was added in 1850.

Of the numerous paintings the most impressive are a triptych in the first ambulatory chapel, its side panels probably painted by Rubens; in the fourth chapel the Colibrant triptych (1517) representing the marriage of the Virgin in the center and the Annunciation and Circumcision on the side panels, probably by Goswyn van der Weyden, the grandson of Rogier van der Weyden; finally in the right aisle a triptych by Otto Venius ("Coming of the Holy Spirit"; 1612).

The Baroque pulpit of 1642 by Artus Quellin is noteworthy. The most important of the church treasures is the 800kg silver shrine of St Gummarus which is carried through the streets in processions.

The late Gothic stained glass is of outstanding beauty: in the right side aisle the "Coronation of the Virgin" (15th C.), in the choir apse three windows presented by the Emperor Maximilian in 1516 representing himself and his wife Maria of Burgundy and in the same place a window of Sts Gummarus and Rumoldus (1475).