Église Saint-Prix de Saint-Prix

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Saint-Prix Church is a Catholic parish church located in Saint-Prix, Val-d'Oise, France. The first Romanesque church, perhaps to which the cornices belong to the east and west of the base of the bell tower, was given to the abbey Saint-Martin of Pontoise around 1085, and a priory was founded at the same time. The patron of the parish was then Saint Germain.

From the end of the 12th century until about 1220, the church is entirely rebuilt in the primitive Gothic style, and it preserves from that time the general plan and order, but very few elements in elevation: these are essentially the capitals to the north of the nave; the eastern piles of the bell tower, which rises above the cross of the transept; the belfry floor of the bell tower; and the high blocked windows in the right part of the choir. In the 15th century, the rise of the pilgrimage of St.Prix, whose church probably has relics from the beginning, meant that this second patron supplanted the first, which had long been erased. After the Hundred Years' War, the church is almost entirely rebuilt for a second time: first the nave is vaulted with warheads in the Gothic style...