Tournai - Cathédrale Notre-Dame Choir

The three-aisled choir is pure Gothic with light falling on it from the high windows with 19th C. glass. The chapels of the choir ambulatory house valuable paintings of the Dutch-Flemish school; the finest are a purgatory scene by Rubens in the Chapelle-du-Saint-Sacrement, the "Raising of Lazarus" by Pourbus the Elder in the chapel before the entrance to the treasury, and in the central chapel the "Virgin" by Maarten de Vos. Also of interest are a number of tombstones which were damaged by the iconoclasts but all are good examples of the school of sculpture of Tournai. Behind the high altar of 1727 a large marble memorial bears the names of all the bishops and canons of Tournai.