Église Saint-Georges de Chevrières

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Saint George's Church is a Catholic parish church located in Chevrières, France. It was built between 1530 and 1545 in the flamboyant Gothic style, under the impetus of the new local lord, Robert de Broully. His seat is preserved in the church.

Beautiful stained glass windows were offered by the chapter of Beauvais, the attorney of the seigneur and his wife, as well as by Canon Nicolas Bottie. Four of these stained glass windows attributed to Nicolas Leprince's Beauvaisian workshop remain, but they were heavily restored in 1860. The nave and its collaterals had to be financed by parishioners, and they remained unfinished until 1868.

The homogeneity of architecture does not make it possible to suspect that the church is actually the result of several construction campaigns, except for the façade, which has a portal of 1672. As a whole, Saint George's Church is fairly representative of the flamboyant reconstructions of the second half of the 16th century in the region, and without particularly distinguishing itself, it can be considered a quality achievement. It was largely refurbished in the 19th century, and its classification to historical monuments came in...