Premonstratensian College, Leuven

The façade at Naamsestraat 61 was listed as a public monument in 1942 and the building as a whole in 2009.

[1] The college was founded jointly by the abbots of the Norbertine abbeys of Averbode, Park, Grimbergen and Ninove for the training of the order's theologians.

It was housed in what had been the refugium of Grimbergen Abbey, and formally inaugurated at Christmas 1573.

By the mid-18th century the original building was no longer fit for purpose and was replaced with a new building in 1753–1755, probably designed by Grégoire Godissart (1708–1780), a lay brother of Averbode Abbey.

After the suppression of the university in 1797, during the French period the building was briefly used as a barracks, a law court and a hospital.