page_title: Church of Saint-Sulpice, Jumet
section_title: Architecture and furniture
hierarchical_section_title: Church of Saint-Sulpice, Jumet / Architecture and furniture
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jumet (Charleroi - Belgique) - Église Saint-Sulpice (1750-1753) - chevet
context_page_description: The Church of Saint Sulpice is a Roman Catholic church in Jumet, a neighborhood of the Belgian city of Charleroi in Hainaut, Wallonia. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. The oldest material traces of a religious building on the site date back to the 10th century. Three churches preceding the current construction were identified during excavations carried out in 1967. The current building was built between 1750 and 1753 in a classical style, by an anonymous architect. The brick and limestone church is quite homogeneous. It's composed of six bayed naves flanked by aisles, a three-sided transept and a choir with a polygonal ambulatory with a sacristy in its axis. The chamfered base is in dimension stone on the frontage, in rubble stones and sandstone for the rest. All the angles of the building are toothed and every second stone is bossed. The church has been listed as a Belgian cultural heritage site since 1949.
context_section_description: The church is made of brick and limestone and was built in the classic style. Overall, it is uniform in appearance. It's composed of six bayed naves flanked on either side by aisles, a three-sided transept and a choir with a polygonal ambulatory with a sacristy in its axis. The chamfered base is in dimension stone on the frontage, in rubble stones and sandstone for the rest. All the angles of the building are toothed and every second stone is bossed.
  The windows, except those of the tower, all have a gouged limestone frame cut with protruding teeth, with a curved arch and window aprons joined together by a limestone band going around the whole building. Similarly conceived half-windows are found on the second level in the background, under the cornice.
  The frontage has two levels, with above them a curved pediment. On the first level, two belts proceed further than the central part to the side frontages under the voluted ailerons placed on both sides of the second level. Above the pediment, a square tower is made up of two stories separated by a belt. The tower has a polygonal steeple on a pyramidal base. The limestone portal is preceded by several steps. It's flanked by pilasters with crosswalls that hold an entablature and a curved pediment. There is an arched door.
  A secondary door, preceded by ten steps, is pierced by the first north aisle bay.
  The interior is quite bright, painted in white and grey. It is covered by barrel vaults. The columns of the nave are of tuscan style. The piers of the choir and of the transept are crowned with a voluted capitals.
  The church contains noted panelling and furniture.
  In the church is a baptismal font from the 11th or 12th century. It consists of a stone bowl slightly flared but circular, flanked by four engaged columns on a base. The columns end with a roughly cut human head, of which two out of four are missing. The style is Romanesque and the font archaic: straight nose and barely cleared, skin-deep eyes, mouth expressionless. These details are characteristic of Romanesque workshops from the 11th and 12th centuries. However, the disposal of Jumet differs from other fonts known by the feature that the heads are borne directly by columns. Usually, the head is supported in cantilever by a kind of console, as is the case, for example, in Gerpinnes.
  The furniture also contains an altar devoted to Our-Lady of Tongre and a communion bench, both dating from the 17th century.
caption: Chevet of the church.
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