Sint-Remacluskerk, Romanesque Revival church in Spa, Belgium
Sint-Remacluskerk is a church building in Romanesque Revival style located in the Belgian spa town of Spa. It features a double-tower front with octagonal spires, a basilica-like nave, a central tower set on a tambour, and four additional towers at the transept ends.
The building was constructed in 1885 over earlier religious structures and inaugurated in 1886 under the design of architect Eugène Charpentier. Its Romanesque Revival style merges Rhenish and Romanesque elements with 19th-century architectural innovations.
The tympanum of the left tower portal shows Saint Remaclus with a wolf, and the right one Saint Hubert facing a stag bearing a cross between its antlers. Inside, a polychrome wooden statue of Saint Remaclus from the mid-16th century stands where the right transept meets the sanctuary; it belongs to the Leloup votive chapel in Spa.
The church faces Place Achille Salée, about 50 metres east of the Casino de Spa and about 50 metres south of the Peter-the-Great spring house (source: nl.wikipedia). The double-tower front with the clock faces the square, so that side is the entrance to look for.
The church keeps a wooden polychrome statue of Saint Remaclus from the mid-16th century, placed where the right transept meets the sanctuary; it belongs to the Leloup votive chapel, also in Spa. The 1992 organ by André Thomas of Ster-Francorchamps replaced older pipes that could not be repaired.
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