Église de la Nativité de Blaincourt-lès-Précy

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Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativity Church is a parish Catholic church located in Blaincourt-lès-Précy, Oise, France. It is a simple and homogeneous building in flamboyant Gothic style. The contrast between the typically flamboyant network of windows and the flat pattern of the veins of the vaults suggests that the exterior walls date back to the end of the 15th century, and that the vaults were launched afterwards, during the second half of the 16th century, but it is not assured: the church can just as well date entirely from the middle of the 16th century.

The bell tower is the only element that can be dated with certainty, as its "first stone" bears the date of 1782. The outside of the church is austere and without great character. The interior is distinguished by its effect close to a Gothic crypt, excluding the illumination which is abundant, thanks to three parallel vessels of identical height, and a nave barely wider than the collaterals.

It is the originality of its interior arrangement that makes the church of Blaincourt interesting. The decoration is inspired by the Renaissance, but is limited to discrete capitals influenced by the doric order, and some keys...