Église Saint-Sulpice de Béthancourt-en-Valois

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Saint Sulpice Church is a parish Catholic church located in Béthancourt-en-Valois, Oise, France. It was donated to the abbey of Morienval in the mid-12th century. The Romanesque church that existed at that time was almost entirely rebuilt in two stages, leaving only the bell tower of the early 12th century.

At first, a long nave of basilical plane is built, which is not intended to be vaulted. In a second stage, towards the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the next century, the nave is equipped with a western gate decorated with a particularly large number of columns with capitals, and a new choir of two spans is built to the east. vaulted with warheads in contrast to the nave, it is accompanied by two sides, and ends with a flat bedside, whose window with a radiant gothic network was arranged afterwards.

In the choir, which is of a rather sober bill, we note in particular the particular arrangement of the supports according to the cartrain system, which is not used elsewhere in the Valois. In the modern era, the low-sides were rebuilt: that of the north during the first half of the 16th century, and that of the...