Anglican Church of the Resurrection, Brussels

CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, Brussels — This important and skilfully designed new church is by Mr Withers. We cannot congratulate the founders on the dedication, which is altogether unusual for churches of the Anglican rite. We hear that it was suggested by the Bishop of Oxford, who laid the foundation-stone of the new building. The ground-plan comprises a nave, divided by arcades of four from its north and south aisles; a square-ended chancel with a tower, engaged over a south chancel-aisle; a north chancel-aisle, and a sacristy eastward of the latter. The ritual arrangements are excellent. The chancel has a low screen and side parcloses, stalls, and a well- arranged sanctuary. The style is Early Geometrical Pointed. The arcades have equilateral arches and lofty cylindrical shafts, with good caps and bases. The clerestory has eight windows, each being a couplet with a quatrefoiled circle in the head. The chancel-arch is lofty, and has clustered and banded shafts with coloured marbles introduced. The aisle windows are richly moulded trefoil- headed lancets: the east and west windows are good compositions of Geometrical tracery. There is a double west door, with an external pedimented head, which rises in a buttress supporting a niche, and dividing the two large and similar windows of the west front. The tower is lofty, has a well-developed belfry-stage, with two two-light windows on each face, and a low octagonal spire rising from between four octagonal angular spirelets. [Ecclesiologist 1865 page 64]

Church of the Resurrection, Brussels - Our readers have already seen two views of Mr. Withers' fine new church so named. Two other views have since been published. One of these is an external perspective from the south-east, showing very advantageously, the dignified clerestory, the long range of deeply recessed single lights in the aisle wall, and the noble mass of the belfry stage (provided with tall lights, which have projecting louvre boards) predominating over the chancel roof. The other is an internal perspective, taken from the chancel looking westward. It shows the arcades, the clerestory, and the western wall. . In the latter the two western windows, good as they are in themselves, seem to us rather out of proportion: they do not range or harmonize well (as it seems to us) with the horizontal lines of the interior, such for instance as the stringcourse under the clerestory windows, and the wall-plate.[Ecclesiologist 1866 page 62-63]

BRUSSELS - The Bishop of Oxford is to lay the first stone of the new English Church here on Tuesday, the 5th of April. The church is to be built of the Antwerp bricks, is to accommodate about 700 people, and is to have a lofty tower and spire. The site is in in the Rue des Drapiers, leading out of the Avenue de la Toison d'Or. Mr. R. J. Withers is the architect. — Builder.

The Bishop of Oxford has consented to lay the first stone of the proposed new English Church at Brussels, on Tuesday 5th April. The many difficulties of obtaining a good site have previously prevented the consummation of the object. An eligible piece of ground has now been obtained in la Rue des Diepiers leading out of the Avenue de la Toison d'Or. The material to be employed is brick from Antwerp, and the church is to seat 700 people. A lofty tower and spire form part of the design; great breadth and height is intended. Mr. Withers is the architect. [Church Times 26 March 1864 page 101]

In March 1927 the church was gutted by fire. It was re-built on the site of the old church and re-consecrated by the Biship of Fulmam the following year. Financial problems led to its eventual closure.