page_title: St James the Great Church
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St James the Great Church / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk: kerk en toren na de brand, inwendig This is an image of rijksmonument number 37752
context_page_description: Saint James the Great Church is a large Protestant church in the city of Flushing, Netherlands. The building is on the Old Market; around are the streets called Branderijstraat and Lepelstraat. The original Roman Catholic church of the city, it has belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church since 1572, which became the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in 2004.
  The church is pseudo-basilican in style; the aisles are almost as wide as the nave, the three aisles each have their own vault and the nave rises above the aisles, although a clerestory is missing.
context_section_description: The church was built between 1308 and 1328. From this period dates the lower brick section of the tower . The Gothic spire was replaced by a wooden crown similar to the current one in 1501. The carillon in the tower is the fourth bells and dates from 1951 .
  In 1911 a large fire broke out in which the church heavily damaged. The fire caused steeple to come crashing down and landed on the rest of the church building. A large part of the church has been lost, including the church's organs.
  The northern transept was formerly designated for use by the English church. This section was screened by means of a wall. The old door is still visible in the Branderijstraat next to the presbytery. The English moved to the new English church on the site of the current city hall on Paulkrugerstraat in 1914.
caption: After the 1911 fire.
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