Religious buildings
Presentation
The Saint-Denis collegiate church was founded by Notger in 987. A strange building with the appearance of a medieval fortress, it remains, despite the transformations, a fine example of the art of building at the time of Notger. Revamped over time according to architectural fashions and the resources of the canons who managed it, the collegiate church today has a warm interior that combines Romanesque, Baroque and Gothic styles in an astonishing and harmonious way.
You can admire the superb wooden altarpiece (altarpiece of the Passion of Christ and the life of Saint Denis) from the beginning of the 16th century.
The now detached shutters were painted by Lambert Lombard (1505-1566) and are displayed separately in the side aisles.
The collegiate church also contains one of the oldest organ cases in Wallonia (1589), a Carrara marble altar with statues of the Virgin (1650) and Saint Denis (1709), a pulpit, the statue of Our -Lady of the Pont des Arches (16th century), the lectern eagle in gilded wood and Christ on the cross by Jean Del Cour…
André-Modeste Grétry was a choirboy in Saint-Denis from the age of 9; in front of his musical skills, the canons sent him to Rome to improve. It was also in Saint-Denis that the writer Georges Simenon was baptized, who devoted a few pages to this district he knew so well.
Opening : Open every day from Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
