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Saint Salvator Cathedral: Interior, nave looking towards organ loft and rood screen, pulpit to the right
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
The church is known for its Baroque organ, originally built by Jacobus Van Eynde (1717-1719) and rood screen.
A 12th-century vaulted basilica with tall triforia. St. Salvator was restored in the 14th century after a fire, and its radiating chapels with Flamboyant tracery were added from 1482 by Jan van den Poele (fl 1478-1520). Its west tower was begun in the 12th century, but the upper part was completed only in 1846 by Robert Chantrell, in a Romanesque Revival style. The church is known for its Baroque organ, originally built by Jacobus Van Eynde (1717-1719) and rood screen.