Namur - Maisons des Soeurs de Notre-Dame

The Church of Notre-Dame belonging to the convent lies further east of it. This Baroque church, restored between 1750 and 1756, contains in the crypt the funerary monuments of Counts Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II of Namur (died 1391 and 1418).

The ecclesiastical treasury consists of the treasure from the monastery of Oignies which came into the possession of the convent in 1818; its finest pieces were the work of the goldsmith Pater Hugo von Oignies.

Hugo lived in the 12th/13th C. in the monastery of Oignies, and his work is in the tradition of the great masters of the Meuse district, Renier and Godefroid de Huy and Nikolaus of Verdun. Characteristic of his work is the extremely delicate chasing with foliage and sometimes little hunting scenes. There are two magnificent pieces exhibited in Namur: a cover of a gospel of 1230 from Trier decorated with enamel work, and the goblet of Gilles de Walcourt of 1238.