Église Notre-Dame d'Orry-la-Ville

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Notre-Dame d'Orry-la-Ville Church is a Catholic parish church located in Orry-la-Ville, France. There is no evidence to suggest that Orry-la-Ville owned a church in the same place before the construction of the present church, which the stylistic analysis allows to situate between about 1160 and 1170. Before, there was already a chapel dedicated to Saint Rieul, near the cemetery, as well as the parish church of the village of Geni, the historical core of the present commune, which depopulated during the first half of the thirteenth century.

The abolition of his parish by meeting with Orry-la-Ville in 1246 led at the same time to the birth of the parish of La Chapelle-en-Serval, a former dependency of Orry. — The sculpture and the modeling of the choir of Notre-Dame church shows an influence by Notre-Dame de Senlis Cathedral, which allows a connection to Gothic architecture, while the outside of the apse in the hemicycle is still under the influence of Romanesque architecture. The nave was built after the choir, and was initially not vaulted and devoid of sides.

The south side was added at the beginning of the 16th century at the latest. Then the nave was vaulted...