Facing a wooded square of a beautiful scale, the parish church of Saint-André de Rosières is a neoclassical rural building built in the mid-19th century to plans by architect E. Moreau. Preceded by a beautiful flight of stairs, the church built against the top of the street is surrounded by the old walled cemetery. Erected in brick, limestone and sandstone limestone from Gobertange under a slate saddleback, the building has a tower engaged between annexes, a main nave and side aisles of four bays, terminated by a choir with a flat apse preceded by a straight span. The three-storey tower opens with a door inscribed in a rectangular limestone frame surmounted by a pediment bearing the vintage “1844”. Above, a limestone-framed half-moon window rests on a stone band and support brackets. The top of the tower, crowned with an octagonal spire, is pierced on each side with a semicircular opening fitted with an abat-son, under cross-shaped bowling holes. The angles of the facade are highlighted with a stone chain. The annexes framing the tower are blind. The gutter walls of the side aisles are each lit by five semicircular windows, topped with a limestone key.
The plastered interior presents a pleasant homogeneity, with painted Doric columns, some of which are fluted. A false barrel vault surmounts the main nave and the chancel, the aisles have a flat ceiling. A beautiful paving of blue, gray, black and white stones adorns the choir.
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Willem VS

November 8, 2020

La Maison Rosiéroise, school and town hall.
In "Geography and History of Belgian Municipalities" (published in 1873), we learn that the municipal school was built (editor's note. Around 1858) on the plans of the architect Moreau. It contained a room for the meetings of the municipal council. The number of poor children who were admitted by the commune in 1858-1859 to receive free education rose to 80: 50 boys and 30 girls.

Behind a fence wall encircling the property, this set brought together the old town hall and the old school. It is a sober neoclassical building from the second half of the 19th century consisting of a central building and small annexes. Built in brick underlined with limestone under a slate roof and eternity, the whole is whitewashed. The main building consists of a thick volume, under a hipped roof, framed by lower annexes. The whole has been renovated and serves as a neighborhood house.
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December 23, 2024

Until 1559, the parish of Rosières depended on the bishopric of Cambrai, then, later, on the bishopric of Mechelen. In 1801, the priest P-J. Goossens wrote a monograph of the parish which provides interesting information on the history of the commune. He mentions in particular that hardly any houses were built, only the old ones were rebuilt, a certain number of which are still in existence, made of clay and covered with thatch.

The previous church, in the Renaissance style, had been built in 1704, a date which can be read above the door. Falling into ruins, a new church was built in 1844 on the same site. Dedicated to Saint Andrew, this neo-classical rural building was built in brick and white stone according to the plans of the architect E. Moreau.

The work was probably supervised with little care, because many cracks already crisscross the walls of the building and the ceilings of the interior are coming loose in several places, wrote Jules Tarlier and Alphonse Wauters in 1873.

It was consecrated in 1877 by Mgr Anthonis, Bishop of Constance. Built at the top of a staircase, on the side of an embankment, it already had, less than 20 years later, many cracks. Based on the writings of Tarlier and Wauters, Louis Evrard describes the church: A square tower, topped with a small opening for a rectangular door with a pediment and a semi-circular skylight lighting the rood screen; it precedes a vessel in the form of a basilica with three naves that two rows of Doric columns, supporting arched arcades, divide into four bays. A beautiful barrel vault covers the choir and the main nave; a horizontal ceiling covers the colleterals. The three altars are still dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament, the Blessed Virgin and Saint Andrew, traditionally invoked against back pain.

The route of the E411 has profoundly changed this view of the Saint-André church in Rosières. Included in a low wall near the old cemetery, the Saint-Antoine chapel is now a survivor.

Source: retrorixensart.wordpress.com/2019/11/30/eglise-saint-andre-rurale-et-neo-classique

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