St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent contains the Baroque pulpit carved from wood and marble by Hendrik Frans Verbruggen.
The pulpit, completed in 1745, is an elaborate Rococo-Baroque work made from white marble and oak. Its sculptural program includes allegorical figures and natural imagery, making it one of the cathedral’s most striking furnishings. Verbruggen was an important sculptor active in the Austrian Netherlands.
St Bavo’s is especially famous for the Ghent Altarpiece, but the building contains many later artistic layers as well. Its interior includes Gothic architecture, Baroque monuments, paintings, tombs, and decorative sculpture accumulated over several centuries.
The cathedral should not be confused with the nearby Belfry of Ghent or St Nicholas’ Church. It occupies the site of earlier religious buildings and became the cathedral of the Diocese of Ghent in the sixteenth century.