Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Silly-le-Long

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Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Church is a parish Catholic church located in Silly-le-Long, Oise, France. Except for its apse of the late 12th century and its bell tower-porch of the second quarter of the 13th century, it is a flamboyant Gothic building completed in the second quarter of the 16th century. Its three ships communicate with each other by large arcades of exceptional quality, which were undertaken between the late 14th and early 14th centuries, and constitute one of the very few testimonies of the architecture of this troubled era in the north of Île-de-France.

They reflect the successive passage from the radiant style to the flamboyant style. Their pillars, halfway between fascicated pillars and wavy pillars, carry frieze of a partly very original iconography, with grotesque characters, a hunting scene, sheep and fish, but also pampres often highlighted later. The north side is partly contemporary of the great arcades, but the vaults of the nave and the lower side, and probably the whole southern elevation, date only from the flamboyant period ending.

Unlike the apse, which is a...