Joseph Dumont (architect)

Joseph Dumont was a Belgian Neogothic architect who primarily designed and remodelled churches and prisons.

Life

Dumont was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to Belgian parents. He trained as an architect and was appointed to the Commission royale des Monuments. He worked on the restoration of medieval churches in Aarschot, Sint-Truiden, Saint-Hubert, and Nivelles, and of St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres. He designed the church of St Boniface, Ixelles, modern prison cells in Brussels, Liège, Marche, Dinant, and Leuven, and a reformatory at Ruiselede. He designed somewhere in the region of 30 Neogothic churches. He died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, on 29 March 1859.