Flemish relics; architectural, legendary, and pictorial, as connected with public buildings in Belgium . rped rock which is onthe north side of the church, stands the Chapel of St. Bernard, aseventeenth-century structure, which replaced the ancient one beforementioned ; near it, lower down, was the L^proserie, or Maison desPestiferes. Above the Abbots garden rises the rock whencemost of the stone for the buildings was taken ; it was cut intoterraces, laid out as gardens, and named the was a reservoir for feeding the fountains, a tannery, astable, and a gi-ange. The ancient m


Flemish relics; architectural, legendary, and pictorial, as connected with public buildings in Belgium . rped rock which is onthe north side of the church, stands the Chapel of St. Bernard, aseventeenth-century structure, which replaced the ancient one beforementioned ; near it, lower down, was the L^proserie, or Maison desPestiferes. Above the Abbots garden rises the rock whencemost of the stone for the buildings was taken ; it was cut intoterraces, laid out as gardens, and named the was a reservoir for feeding the fountains, a tannery, astable, and a gi-ange. The ancient mill of the Abbey is now alittle inn ; it is a structure of the twelfth century.* =:= The first edition of Brohaniia Sacra by Sandenis, contains a view ofthe west front of Yillers, as it appeared early in the seventeenth century; thatin the Tremr Sacre de Brabant shows the additions of the last the early history of the Abbey see Hist. IMonast. Villar, ajnid Marteneet Durand.—Thcsanr. Anccdot., as quoted by Schayes. See also Mr. Fergu-sons History of ilrchitecture, p. 723. \>^K. ^:^r-. CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS AND BEFFROI, GHENT.


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