The Jerusalem Church is odd in that it remains intact in its original form from the 15th century when the Adorni family, merchants from Genoa, Italy settled in the area and built it and it remains privately owned by their descendants till this day. Copied from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem it is a morbid experience resplendent with a faux tomb of Christ as well as the original owners’ personal and quite ornate burial site. Ornate stained glass windows from the late 1400s make it well worth the pleasant walk out there.

Inside the church are the mausoleums of Anselmus Adornes (born in Bruges 1424) and his wife Margaretha vander Banck.

The church has a simple brique facade with a central entrance under apointed arch. There are two lancets with tracery in this facade.

Above the choir there is a special octogonal tower.The above building is flanced by four polygonal turrets. As upperpart above the tower there is a remarquable galery. There is a wooden upperconstruction above the tower, with there above a globe, which symbolises the world. The occidental looking upperconstruction is in contrast with the late gothic elements of the rest of the church.

There are two stairs leading from the little nave to the higher choir, which is separated form the neve with an open worked separation and two oak wooden little doors that could be dated from 1484.

There is a crypt under the choir. In this crypt there is an immitation of the grave of Christ.The devotion to the Holy Grave is also to be recognised in the other ornaments in the chappel such as the altar in de nave. This together with the strange looking tower could indicate that the Adornes family wanted to copy the Holy Grave of Jerusalem. The chapel thanks its name to this. This will allways be an hypothese as the original Holy Grave was devastated by fire in the 16 th century and there are no iconoclastic sources found.