Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul d'Arronville

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Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Church is a parish Catholic church located in Arronville, France. It has a Romanesque basilical nave, which dates back to the late 11th or early 12th century, and is distinguished by the variety of its capitals, whose sculpture is archaic, and represents the motifs in a highly stylized way. The lateral arches of the cross of the transept, at the same time base of the bell tower, and of the choir go back to the same period, but have been retouched, especially in the choir.

From the Romanesque period, the remains of the bays on the first floor of the bell tower, south side, also remain. From the first quarter of the 13th century, rather than at the end of the same century or at the beginning of the 14th century, the bas-cotés, the crusillons of the transept and the lateral chapels of the choir were completely taken over, and vaulted with warheads. The arches of the nave are of the same Gothic style, although they date only from the early 16th century.

At the end of the 13th or at the beginning of the 14th century, the vault and bedside of the choir were rebuilt in the radiant Gothic style, with a curious late triplet, whose central bay is equipped with a characteristic reamping of the...