Saint Barbara

Panelled, in varnished chestnut wood, they offer a sober aspect and a remarkable sound to the church. They cover the entire space between the southern gable and the chevet of the choir. Properly oriented lighting highlights this quite original part of this place of worship. We can still see the location of the passage of the cast iron column stove nozzle, which was the building's former means of heating.

This altar with four arched feet was installed at the initiative of Father Jacques Arcq, the last resident priest (1964–1968). A popular and athletic giant, nearly 2 m tall, who often traveled to the Holy Land, he wished to enhance the altar’s prestige. Designed for celebration facing the people, as requested by the mid-1960s liturgical reform, he based its dimensions on his research of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The group of three stained glass windows above the flat chevet of the choir represents the scene of the crucifixion: in the centre, Christ, with Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross, on the left the Virgin Mary and on the right, Saint John. In the central nave, on the east wall is the Nativity stained glass window and opposite it is the Easter stained glass window. Their authors are not known. Two of these stained glass windows were donated by families from the village

A Way of the Cross classically adorns the nave walls. Made of polychrome, varnished ceramic, it was donated in April 1991 by the church wardens of La Louvière to replace the damaged plaster original. Several missing stations were carefully recreated by the Saint-Jean de Quévy-le-Grand monastery ceramics workshop and complemented with a 15th station showing the open tomb. The same workshop also made the remarkable terracotta figures of the crib (1988).

The neo-Gothic confessional dating from the early 20th century is contemporary with the construction of the church. There is only one place left for penitents. Once attached to the south wall, it was recently transferred to the left transept.

In the 19th century, when the parish was founded, many families in this part of the village lived from coal mining. The statue of the miners’ patron saint is elegant, with the tower at her feet tied to her painful and edifying legend. Its current base comes from the former pulpit, formerly fixed at a right angle to the choir, usefully repurposed. The parish banner, honoring the saint and bearing her image, displays the date 1925.