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Saint Quentin Church

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Saint Quentin Church

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Saint Quentin Church

Name: Saint Quentin Church
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Location: Hainaut, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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Katrien

October 31, 2021

The church owes its origin to the Gallo-Roman cemetery that was located on the Grote Markt.

This church bears witness to a mix of Scheldt Romanesque and early Gothic style elements. The arches and simple portal have a Romanesque feel, but the transept and choir certainly have Gothic elements.

The tower, containing a double triforium, dates from the 13th century.

The choir, with aisle and radiating chapels, is on the west side, which is exceptional. The pointed arches of the separating arches under the crossing and the ambulatory with the 3 radiating chapels are said to date from 1464.

The marble choir room is 17th century.

In 1940 the church was destroyed. The reconstruction was completed in 1968, which clearly gave the church a more original Romanesque character.

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Willem VS

June 15, 2021

This church occupies a central place in the city, like a church in the middle of the village. Its origin is undoubtedly linked to the vast Gallo-Roman cemetery which stretched over the site of the Grand-Place and a neighboring district. Its nave dates back to the end of the 12th century. The transept and the choir, vaulted with ribs, belong to the transition between Romanesque and Gothic. The central tower dates from the 13th century and is decorated internally with a double triforium. The choir, closed with a 17th century marble fence, was surrounded by an ambulatory and several chapels financed in 1464 by Pasquier Grenier, the most famous of Tournai upholsterers.
Two remarkable statues from the Church of Sainte-Madeleine make up the group known as the Annunciation, namely the Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel. They were made in 1428 by the Tournaisian sculptor Jean Delemer.
cirkwi.com/fr/point-interet/206491-eglise-saint-quentin

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Willem VS

June 15, 2021

The origin of the church is presumably linked to the large Gallo-Roman cemetery over which it was built.
The church was built in the 12th century. The wealthy carpet weaver Pasquier Grenier had the ambulatory and three chapels added in 1464, after which he himself was buried in the church in 1493.
She was extensively damaged in a Luftwaffe bombing raid in May 1940.

The ship is Romanesque. The transept and choir have vaults whose style reveals that they were built on the transition from Romanesque to Gothic. The marble balustrade that closes off the choir dates from the 17th century. The crossing tower was built in the 13th century and is characterized by a double triforium.
Between the nave and the transept are two chapels. One of them contains the tomb of Jacques Castaigne from 1327. The pleurants who mourn his passing show considerable wear and tear.

Two polychrome statues dating from 1428 have been placed against the pillars of the crossing. This group of the Annunciation is the work of sculptor Jean Delemer and painter Robert Campin, two masters of Tournai of whom hardly any other work has survived. The group originally came from the Sint-Pieterskerk, which was demolished in 1821. An in-depth restoration was completed in 2010, respecting the results of previous interventions (preservation of the 19th-century heads, hands and wings).
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Kwintenskerk_(Tournai)

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