Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Domont)

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Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Church is a parish Catholic church located in Domont, France. Its construction is probably initiated by the creation of the parish of Domont in 1142, and it can be located in the middle of the 12th century. However, of modest dimensions, its elevation on three levels with a gallery floor and its plan are ambitious, which is in part the interest of the building.

It is of primitive Gothic style, but its walk is still resolutely Romanesque, as its vault of ridges indicates. Throughout the northern part of Ile-de-France, his apse in hemicycle to walk away seems to be the oldest, and Domont is at the same time one of the few churches in the region to possess a walk-in but no radiant chapels. Since Domont was the seat of a priory dependent on the Clunisian priory Saint-Martin-des-Champs of Paris, from 1108 to 1790, it is likely that the choir of the church Saint-Martin-des-Champs inspired that of Domont.

This choir is not only renowned for its artistic qualities and the harmony of its architecture, but also for an innovation that appears there for the first time in the region. These are the bows-buttons...