Église de la Nativité de la Sainte-Vierge de Jouy-le-Moutier

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The Church of the Nativity of Saint Vierge and Saint Leu is a parish Catholic church located in Jouy-le-Moutier, France. Long known as the Church of Our Lady of the Visitation, the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin has as its second patron saint Saint Wolf of Sens. Its oldest and most remarkable part externally is the two-storey Romanesque bell tower with a stone octagonal arrow.

It should not be much before 1130. Rising above the cross of the transept, its base separates the nave from the choir, and in order to make them better communicated, it was enhanced in the sixteenth century. Most of the roman capitals were preserved during this bold operation.

Although the base of the bell tower is now as high as the nave, it is however narrow, which motivated the movement of the altar at the end of the nave. The beautiful choir of the 1220s / 1240s influenced by the architecture of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, whose chapter named for the cure, is thus useless. The nave is of a flamboyant Gothic style, less refined, especially around the high windows, but it is unquestionably of great originality so much for...