's-Hertogenbosch - St Janskathedraal

 
From the east side of the Markt either Hinthamerstraat or Kerkstraat will bring you to St Janskathedraal (R.C.), the finest medieval church in the Netherlands. Originally Romanesque (1280- 1312), the church was given its present Gothic form between 1380 and 1530. It is 115m/377ft long by 62m/203ft wide, making it the largest church in the Netherlands.

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The choir was built in the early 15th century, the transept about 1450. The Romanesque tower has a Gothic spire. Work on the church was interrupted by the iconoclastic movement, so that its building was spread over a century and a half. Owing to shortage of money, however, it was left unfinished: some of the buttresses near the west doorway, for example, are not properly finished. In 1529 a wooden tower 85m/280ft high was built over the crossing, but this was destroyed by lightning in 1584 and was not rebuilt; it was replaced instead by a raised dome, on top of which is a large painted eye, a symbol of the Trinity.

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