The interior of the church is striking due to the quality of the
decor. It is a place of scenic beauty where the yellow sand of the
vault,
in Maestricht tufa, converses with the red marble of
the annulated columns, the blackness of the stylobates, the green
marble of the cartels and the richness of the wooden panelling.
Charles Baudelaire,
during a visit to Namur in the company of
Félicien Rops
described this edifice of sinister and courtly wonder. In
Pauvre Belgique he wrote:
Saint Loup is different from anything I have ever seen by the Jesuits.
The interior of a catafalque decorated in black, pink and silver.
Confessionals, each different in style, fine, subtle and baroque,
a new antiquity. The Church of the Beguine convent in Brussels is a
communicant. Saint-Loup is a terrible and delicious catafalque.
The supreme ruler of all these Jesuit churches, flooded in light
and huge windows, Boudoirs of Religion, ...