Sint-Norbertuskerk
Sint-Norbertuskerk stands at the corner of Dageraadplaats and Korte Altaarstraat in Antwerp’s Zurenborg district. This neo-Gothic church rose between 1902 and 1904, when fields and orchards were becoming a planned urban neighbourhood. Architect Frans Ernest Dieltiens shaped the building, whose interior brings together stone sculpture, mosaics, painted walls and coloured glass.
The white Savonnière-stone high altar by Jan Gerrits shows Saint Norbertus preaching in Antwerp and defending devotion to the Holy Sacrament. Jules Dobbelaere’s 1906 transept windows add tall bands of colour, while the choir glazing presents Christ the King between Peter and Paul. Smaller windows portray Francis of Assisi and Teresa of Ávila, and Edward Steyaert’s rose window watches over the entrance.
A mechanical organ by François-Bernard Loret arrived here in 1908 from the predecessor of Saint Willibrordus Church. Few Loret organs remain in Belgium, making this instrument one of the church’s most distinctive details.
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