Église Saint-Martin de Cramoisy

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Saint-Martin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Cramoisy, Oise department, France. It has a two-storey Romanesque bell tower, dating back to the very beginning of the 12th century. The church was classified as Historic Monuments by order of 26 December 1906.

She is now affiliated with the parish of Sainte-Claire de Mouy. Eucharistic celebrations have become rare because of the extent of this parish. In addition to the bell tower a flat buttress of the facade and an archaic capital remain of the Romanesque church whose plan it is impossible to reconstruct.

At first the Romanesque church was enlarged by a chapel of two spans south of the nave that its primitive Gothic style allows to date from about 1180. It was demolished at an indefinite time. In a second stage the facade and the whole nave were enlarged and a new choir, with a lateral chapel to the south, were built in Gothic style radiating around the middle of the thirteenth century.

While the nave seems provisional the choir does not lack interest. The vault in cradle north of the bell tower astonishes in the Gothic period; the veins of the vaults of the ship...