Maredsous Abbey in Belgium was designed by Jean-Baptiste de Béthune, a leader of the neo-Gothic style in Belgium. Beuron Abbey founded it in 1872, and the Desclée family paid for the design and construction. Construction was finished in 1892, and the article gives no start year. The overall plan is based on the 13th-century Cistercian Abbey of Villers.
The abbey church has side chapels along the aisles and a choir with monks' stalls. Frescoes are by the art school of the mother house at Beuron. Béthune and Desclée reportedly disliked that style and called it Assyrian-Bavarian, but the text marks this claim as needing a citation. The text names no materials or dimensions.
Pope Pius XI made the church a basilica on October 12, 1926. Blessed Columba Marmion, abbot from 1909 to 1923, is buried there. It is a working Benedictine monastery that makes Maredsous cheese and has a Cheesemaking Museum opened in 2016. The article gives no hours.
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