Église Saint-Martin de Commeny

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The Saint Martin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Commeny, Val-d'Oise, France. Its construction began a few decades after Commeny's erection in 1161. At the beginning of the 13th century, this early Gothic building was completed, with a nave of four spans accompanied by two lower sides, a transept with central bell tower, and a small choir with a flat bedside.

During the Hundred Years' War, the church suffered damage, and the last spans of the lower side and the transept crusions were rebuilt at the beginning of the sixteenth century, in the flamboyant Gothic style. Later, in 1568, the nave and its sides are not only vaulted with warheads in a somewhat rustic Renaissance style, but the large arcades of the south and the walls of the lower side are completely redone. Therefore, only the large arches of the north, the cross of the transept, the bell tower and the choir remain of the first parish church.

Then, the strengthening of the bell tower piles, then the demolition of the bell tower in 1832 and a rather radical restoration considerably reduced the architectural interest of the building. However, a new bell tower was built in 1833, and...