The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Dinant () is a

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located in

Dinant Dinant () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On the shores of river Meuse, in the Ardennes, it lies south-east of Brussels, south ...

, a city in

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(southern

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), on the banks of the

river Meuse The Meuse or Maas is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a total length of . History From 1301, the upper ...

. The 13th-century Gothic building replaced a 10th-century Romanesque church which collapsed in 1228, leaving only the north door. Its most iconic part is the separate 16th-century pear-shaped

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Gallery

File:Dinant Collégiale R01.jpg, Church exterior File:The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame Dinant.jpg, Interior File:0 Dinant - La Collégiale N.-D. de l'Assomption et la Meuse (1).JPG, From above File:Stained glass, Notre Dame de Dinant, Dinant, Belgium.jpg, Stained glass

References

External links

The Collegiate Church of Our Lady on TripAdvisor

The Collegiate Church of Our Lady on Michelin Guides
Collegiate churches in Belgium Churches in Namur (province) Dinant Gothic architecture in Belgium {{Belgium-church-stub