Photo by Emil P. Albreclit 



THE CATHEDRAI. OF ST. BAVON, ELElVIlNTH TO SIXT^E^NTH CENTURY: GHE^NT 



The tower, 260 feet high, dates from 1462. Its spire was lost through fire in 1602. On 

 the left is the Cloth Hall, a Gothic building of the fifteenth century restored in 1900, and 

 on the extreme left is the base of the Belfry, built in 1300-1339, a tall, square tower 390 

 feet high, which, however, is only two-thirds of its projected height. 



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