It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and its foundation, which is presumed to date to 770, is attributed to Amalberga of Temse.

[2] From the later Romanesque period have been preserved the three-aisled cruciform church with an eight-sided crossing tower and choir with a semicircular apse.

[2] Philip the Fair granted a special tax in 1496 to pay for the repair and reconstruction of the church after heavy fire damage.

The repair was paid for through a levy of tithes by Saint Peter's Abbey in Ghent.

[2][3] Inside the church there is an 18th-century sculpture by Adriaan Nijs and his son Philips Alexander and a mausoleum from 1517 of Roeland Lefèvre, the first lord of Temse.