Church building

Église Saint-Martin de Gilocourt

église Saint-Martin de Gilocourt

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Église Saint-Martin de Gilocourt
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Saint Martin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Gilocourt, Oise, France. From the outside, it appears as an almost exclusively Gothic building flamboyant. The importance of the glazed surface and the very neat networks are to be emphasized.

On the other hand, there is only one small tower in frame, and the western facade overlooking the street is austere, despite the elegant portal of primitive Gothic style. It announces a nave of the same style, which has never been vaulted and whose side windows are walled, but which still seduces by its large arcades of a complex profile, which fall on bundles of three columns with capitals on each side. The coasts are wider than usual, especially the south, and flooded with light.

The eastern parts are purely flamboyant, although still encompassing older structures. The central vessel of the choir and its sides are vaulted at the same height, which is much more modest than that of the nave, and together form a largely unified liturgical space, without any partitioning. Unlike the central bell tower churches, the sanctuary has been visible since...