Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew

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The Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew (

redecoration of the interior. The interior of the western section has recently been restored back to the original style.

The Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew was one of the original

.

In 2006, the church emerged from heavy restoration work lasting seven years and involving 10,000 replaced stones and the restoration of the polychromy of the walls).

Art collections

The church contains numerous works of art, among which may be mentioned The Glorification of the Holy Cross, a tableau of the local painter

by Renier Panhay de Rendeux.

St. Bartholomew is the site of one of the most known examples of ecclesiastical Mosan art, a baptismal font attributed to the goldsmith Renier de Huy. It was commissioned at the beginning of the 12th century (1107–1108) by the Abbot Hellin for the Church of Notre-Dame-aux-Fonts, now destroyed, where local baptisms traditionally were administered.

The font was installed in St. Bartholomew Church in 1804, after having been spared from the occupying forces of the French Revolutionary Army.

This work heralds a resurgence of Greek influences on Western art. The brass tank, resting on ten (originally twelve) ox figures, presents five scenes: the

, and the baptism of the philosopher Craton.

• 
  Font of Renier de Huy: The baptism of Christ
• 
  Font of Renier de Huy: The baptism of the catechumens

Notable figures

• Alger of Liège (1055–1131), deacon

References

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