Église Saint-Gervais de Pontpoint

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Saint-Gervais Church is a Catholic church located in Pontpoint, France. Its oldest part, the Romanesque bell tower, dates back to the last quarter of the 11th century. The nave and its sides were replaced for the first time during the second quarter of the 12th century.

Then from about 1170, begins the Gothic transformation of the church with the construction of a new transept and a new choir, which represents an early specimen of the bedside with cut strips, even if the shape in hemicycle emerges from the outside. The nave was taken over as a work shortly after, replacing the large Romanesque arcades with Gothic arcades falling back on the capitals of isolated cylindrical pillars. While the transept and the choir are vaulted with warheads from the beginning, the nave and the sides are simply carpented.

At the beginning of the 14th century, however, the posterior part of the south side was replaced by a new chapel of four spans, and in the 16th century a similar operation was conducted to the north, with the addition of a chapel of two spans in the flamboyant Gothic style. The building holds a dissymmetric plan, which does not, however, detract from the quality of its architecture...