The organ-buffet is ornate, even of its kind,—a masterpiece of cabinet-making,—and was the work of Andre Severin of Maestricht in 1673.
The left transept, which is some thirty feet longer than the right, has a fine painting of a "Mater Dolorosa," while, opposite, is a[{301}] stone monument to the founder of the church, Baudry II., of Renaissance workmanship.
St. Jean is another pre-tenth-century foundation of the Bishop Notger, somewhat after the plan of the "round church" at Aix-la-Chapelle. It was entirely rebuilt, however, in the eighteenth century, though the original octagon was kept intact.
At some distance from the city, on a height which may be truly called dominating, is the church of St. Martin, founded in 962, and reconstructed, after the Gothic manner of the time, contemporary with St. Jacques. Of recent times it has been restored. If any separation or division of its parts can be made, one concludes that the choir is German, and its nave French.
In 1246 there was held in this church a Fête Dieu following upon a vision of Ste. Julienne, the abbess of Cornillon near Liège. The fête was ordained by Pope Urbain IV., who himself had been a canon of the cathedral of Liège.
Ste. Croix was another of Notger's foundations, in 979, on the site of an ancient château.
The choir was built toward 1175, and has an octagonal tower with a gallery of small[{302}] columns just under the roof, after the manner known as distinctly Rhenish.
The church exhibits thoroughly that Rhine manner of building which made combined use of the Gothic and Romanesque,—in bewildering fashion, to one who has previously known only the comparatively pure types of France.
The nave and its aisles rise to the same height, but the apsidal choir is aisleless.
The general effect of the interior is light and graceful, with circular columns in a blue-gray stone, which is very beautiful.