Église Notre-Dame de la Visitation (Rochefort)

Église Notre-Dame de la Visitation

Designer	Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar
Type	Church
Material	Local limestone
Beginning date	May 24, 1874
Inauguration date	November 11, 1874

The Église Notre-Dame de la Visitation de Rochefort (Church of the Visitation of the Holy Virgin, or Church of Our Lady of the Visitation), is a religious building in the Belgian city of Rochefort and the seat of a deanery.

The first church edifice dates back to 1041, therefore the oldest building in the municipality of Behogne-Rochefort. The church burned during the offensive of the army of the Count of Duras in 1653, it was rebuilt and restored 1782. The current building was designed by Brussels architect Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, the church was put into service on May 24, 1874 and inaugurated on November 11 of the same year by Théodore-Joseph Gravez, Bishop of Namur.^[1][2]

The church is built in the neo-Romanesque style with local limestone. The central facade, flanked by two towers, is decorated with a rosette and bears eight statues at its center.^[1]

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  Façade centrale
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  Façade centrale
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  Les huit statues
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  Rosace
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  Intérieur
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  Vitrail
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  Vitrail
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  Statue of Thérèse de Lisieux

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