St. Baaf's Church in Aardenburg at sunset in the summer of 2019. St. Bavo's Church or St. Bavo's Church is a Protestant church in the Dutch town of Aardenburg, in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. It is included in the "Top 100 of the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg" of 1990.
This church, dedicated to Bavo, dates back to 959. Residues of Tournai stone from a former Gallo-Roman temple and from a fortified gate have been incorporated into the building.[1]
The tower from 1220 with the oldest part of the church, the nave and the transept, is the only important example in the Netherlands of pure Scheldt Gothic, a regional architectural style from the transition from Romanesque to Gothic from the first half of the 13th century. The church was built in the years after 1243 on the basis of an earlier church building.