These are just some of the details we enjoyed at an Ypres Almshouse.
'Belle' was the surname of the Thirteenth Century founder.
'Godshuis' is a reminder that a whole chunk of Flemish and English is the same language give or take some spelling and pronunciation - simply 'God's house' in this case (which I remember appears in the form 'Godess hus' in the opening lines of the Ormulum, written in England at roughly the same time as the Belle Almshouse was founded).
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