 When a larger attack was made at night two days later the iconoclasts had provided themselves with a tree trunk as a battering ram, and succeeded in breaking through the doors.<ref name="auto1">Charney, 72–73 - a populist account; when he says April he means August, and "The Lamb" refers to the altarpiece.Petegree, 118 has the Beeldenstorm reaching Ghent on August 22.See also Arnade, 118</ref>

By then the panels had been removed from the frame and hidden, with the guards, on the narrow spiral staircase up the tower, with a locked door at ground level.