St. Eloi Church

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Saint-Éloi Church is a parish Catholic church located in Roissy-en-France, France. Between 1174 and the end of the Ancien Régime, Roissy was a priory-curer of the abbey Saint-Victor in Paris. Some of the walls of the nave and the bell tower may date back to the Middle Ages, but the lack of character of these parts does not make it possible to affirm it, and a date in the seventeenth or eighteenth century is more likely: in fact, there is no element of modeling or monumental sculpture there except the western portal, which is influenced by classicism.

The nave is devoid of bottoms and not vaulted, but impressed by its dimensions. However, only the choir and its collaterals are of real architectural interest, both for their design and the quality of the sculpted decoration of the Renaissance style. The date of 1574 legible on a foothill probably indicates the completion, but everything is unknown about the circumstances of the construction, and the question of attribution to an architect remains outstanding.

In the central vessel of the choir, the ionic and Corinthian orders overlap, and were treated with great freedom of interpretation of the ancient model. The first...