Église Saint-Pierre de Béthisy-Saint-Pierre

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Saint Peter's Church is a parish Catholic church located in Béthisy-Saint-Pierre, France. It is a large and complex building of essentially late Romanesque and primitive Gothic style, whose eastern parts have been modified several times. In the last Romanesque period belong the nave, the lower side, most of the choir and the southern lateral chapel transformed into sacristy.

The lower side and the large arcades of the nave are the oldest parts left authentic. Here there are archaic and innovative tendencies, with square pillars and arcades in the middle, without any capital, on the one hand, and arches of Lombardy school warheads on the other. No other church in Valois has comparable coasts.

The nave was heavily restored at the end of the 19th century, before the classification of historical monuments by order of 7 May 1913, from which it was excluded. The upper parts have therefore been denatured, but the original plan and elevation are nevertheless preserved. The choir is just as singular as the lower side, because it is much lower and less broad than the nave, while the construction of the two parts...