Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Chaumont-en-Vexin

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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church is a Catholic parish church located in Chaumont-en-Vexin, France. It is built a little away from the centre of the village on the eastern side of the hillside of the old castle, and can only be accessed by stairs. The church of Saint John the Baptist represents the main religious building of the French Vexin, dating entirely from the 16th century.

It is a very homogeneous building in flamboyant Gothic style, built under a single countryside between about 1530 and 1554. Only the vault keys, some elements of the north crusillon gate and the bell tower display the Renaissance style; However, the bell tower remained unfinished, and the second bell tower and the first span of the nave with the western facade were never built. Outside, the portal of the north cruise with its elegant flamboyant décor is the most remarkable element.

The interior is large and bright, and the modeling is complex and original. Despite the advanced period, there are still numerous references to the architecture of the 15th and 14th centuries, of which the transept clearly overflows, the shape of the pillars derived from the fasciculated pillars...