St. Andrew's Church, Antwerp

Construction of the church commenced in the 16th century by Augustinian friars who had built a convent with a chapel at the same location in 1513.

The Augustinians decided to build a church there in 1514 but when they were accused of Lutheran sympathies in 1522 the grounds were taken from them and two of the brothers, Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, were executed for heresy.

The church was decorated with new altar pieces by leading Antwerp artists such as Otto van Veen, Maerten de Vos and one of the many members of the Francken family who lived nearby.

The church lost some of its silver, the triptych by Marten de Vos and the statue of St. Peter by Artus Quellinus I to confiscation by the French.

It would take longer to recover the Marten de Vos triptych which finally ended up in the Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

The stained glass windows on the north side were destroyed on 2 January 1945 through the explosion of a German V-1 flying bomb.

It holds a monument erected by Barbara Mowbray in memory of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Robert and Jan De Nole (1620) with a portrait painted on copper by Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569-1622).

Many of the church's furnishings are distinctly in the Baroque style, as earlier pieces had been destroyed during the 16th century Beeldenstorm.

The Holy Cross Altar is by Cornelis van Mildert (1664), the St. Anna Shrine is by Jan van den Cruyce (1674), while the Our Lady Altar was made by Peeter Vervoort, Willem Kerricx and his son Willem Ignatius Kerricx (1729).