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1554 Oriel Window at Klooster Ter Apel
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1554 Oriel Window at Klooster Ter Apel
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This projecting window belongs to the refectory in the north wing of Klooster Ter Apel. Dutch architectural documentation dates the exterior of the oriel to 1554 and describes it as the reader’s window for the refectory.
Its design combines late-Gothic forms with early-Renaissance motifs, placing it at a transitional moment in sixteenth-century northern European architecture. The stained glass visible in the oriel was installed during the twentieth-century restoration rather than surviving unchanged from the monastery period.
The feature was already being documented photographically in the nineteenth century: the Rijksmuseum preserves an 1893 record specifically titled “Oriel on the north facade of Klooster Ter Apel.”
Its design combines late-Gothic forms with early-Renaissance motifs, placing it at a transitional moment in sixteenth-century northern European architecture. The stained glass visible in the oriel was installed during the twentieth-century restoration rather than surviving unchanged from the monastery period.
The feature was already being documented photographically in the nineteenth century: the Rijksmuseum preserves an 1893 record specifically titled “Oriel on the north facade of Klooster Ter Apel.”
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Ornate projecting 1554 oriel window with leaded stained glass on the brick north facade of Klooster Ter Apel.
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Architectural details
bay window
brick architecture
erker
Europe
Gothic
Gothic architecture
Groningen
Historic buildings
Klooster Ter Apel
Monasteries
monastery
monastery heritage
monastic architecture
Monastic heritage
Museum Klooster Ter Apel
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oriel
Oriel Window
Oriel windows
Ter Apel
Ter Apel Monastery
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Jan-Willem Kruse
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