Cloth Hall, Ypres: In Flanders Fields Museum
Posted in Architecture, History, Museums, Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 9 November 2016
With the possible exception of Saint Martin’s Cathedral, the Cloth Hall (Lakenhalle) is the most imposing building in the city of Ypres (Ieper) in Flanders, Belgium. (The cathedral’s spire can be seen to the rear.)
The mediæval Cloth Hall was all but totally destroyed by shelling during the Great War but lovingly restored in the years after.
There is now a lovely fountain in the paving at the front of the Hall.
Flanking one of the doors to the Cloth Hall are two memorials. This one is to the French soldiers who died in defence of Ypres during the Great War:-
And this commemorates the liberation of Ypres by Polish troops in 1944:-
The Cloth Hall now houses In Flanders Fields Museum, formerly the Ypres Salient Memorial Museum:-
Tags: Belgium, Cloth Hall, First World War, Flanders, Ieper, In Flanders Fields Museum, Lakenhalle, Polish troops, Second World War, the Great War, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII, Ypres
