Saint Quentin's Church
Construction of the church began circa 1440. The church consists of a nave and two aisles, a strongly projecting transept with blind transverse walls, a chancel with a heptagonal apse, two sacristies that were added later on and an originally Romanesque tower.Justus Lipsius described it as Leuven’s most beautiful church.Historically and architecturally, the foundations of the church of Saint Quentin are Romanesque. The lower part of the tower (about 1200) is the oldest part. The rest of the church was built around 1450 by Mathieu de Layens and is classed as high Gothic, Brabant style. The choir was completed in 1453 and the nave in 1535 but it was not until 1900 that the spire was added under the direction of the architect Langerock.