Église Saint-Quentin de Valmondois

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Saint Quentin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, France. It was built from the beginning of the thirteenth century in the Gothic style, starting with the choir which initially consisted of three vessels of different width, but of identical height. This part is vaulted on cross of warheads, which fall on columns with capitals of a varied carved decoration, representative of the architecture of Île-de-France during the second half of Philippe Auguste's reign.

The nave was to be built according to the same principles, but the parishioners did not manage to gather the necessary resources, and only to build a temporary nave not arched, which is astonishment short. His western part probably disappeared. This nave of a very simple bill was never finally replaced, and today represents in the region one of the last specimens of the most modest type of Gothic nave.

At the beginning of the 16th century, when Charles de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam was lord of Valmondois, the northern collateral of the choir was replaced by a rather low chapel of two spans. These are the vault keys...