Exterior To the west, the church has a tripartite façade, built in Massangis stone by the architect J. Rombaux in 1956, and supported by powerful
buttresses with stepped slopes and
saddlebacks. This façade is pierced in its centre by a
classicist-style
portal flanked on either side by flat, rounded
pilasters whose
Ionic capitals support an
entablature comprising a high, undecorated
architrave and a projecting
cornice surmounted by a
bas-relief sculpted by J. Lacroix in 1956 representing a
Madonna and Child (
Sedes Sapientiae) surrounded by two angels. The angel on the left is playing the harp and the angel on the right is handling a
censer. The portal is surmounted by an immense
Gothic-style glass roof and a large gilded clock, carried by the
gable. The side façades are pierced with large
ogival bays and are supported by stepped buttresses, without saddlebacks, unlike the western façade. These façades are hidden by small houses leaning against the church, including the "De Goude Huyve" house in
Baroque style. The arms of the
transept do not extend beyond the plane of the side façades: only the northern arm (/) has a triangular gable. The
crossing of the transept is surmounted by a square
bell tower with
louvers ending in a small bulb which bears a golden ball, a
wrought iron cross and a rooster. File:Belgique - Bruxelles - Eglise Saint-Nicolas - 01.jpg|The Church of St. Nicholas and the small houses leaning against its side façade File:Belgique - Bruxelles - Eglise Saint-Nicolas - 02.jpg|The main
portal File:Belgique - Bruxelles - Eglise Saint-Nicolas - 03.jpg|
Bas-relief above the portal:
Madonna and Child (
Sedes Sapientiae) File:Maison de Goude Huyve 07.JPG|"De Goude Huyve" house File:Belgique - Bruxelles - Eglise Saint-Nicolas - 04.jpg|Bulbous
bell tower Interior Inside, the church's walls, pillars and
ribbed vaults are coated and painted white. To the west, the back of the church is occupied by an imposing
rood screen supported by uncoated
blue stone columns, each ending in a
Corinthian capital. To the east, the
choir, completely off-centre, has a central five-sided
apse flanked by a single
apsidiole on the left. A cannonball, from the
bombardment of Brussels by the French troops in August 1695, is stuck in the top of a pillar of the nave. File:Sint-Niklaaskerk (Brussel) 12-4-2018 13-49-28.jpg|The
nave File:Hoofdaltaar Sint-Niklaaskerk (Brussel) 12-4-2018 13-52-23.jpg|The
choir File:Bruxelles kosciol sw Mikolaja 08.jpg|
Pulpit File:Boulet Saint nicolas.jpg|Cannonball from the
bombardment of Brussels in 1695 ==See also==