Église de la Sainte-Trinité de Choisy-au-Bac

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The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish Catholic church located in Choisy-au-Bac, Oise, France. It is not to be confused with the basilica dedicated to St Stephen, an older foundation, which played an important role in the Merovingian era, and was abandoned to the French Revolution. The construction of the present parish church began at the beginning of the 12th century with the Romanesque nave, and continued after the middle of the 12th century with the transept with its two apsidioles and the facade, which hesitate between the Romanesque and Gothic, and ended at the beginning of the 13th century with the apse and bell tower, clearly Gothic.

Its configuration is in keeping with the tradition of the Romanesque basilicas of the second half of the 11th century, and the many archaic parties, including the absence of columnettes with capitals in the nave and transept, the vaulting in the cul-de-four of the absidioles at such an advanced period, and the absence of foothills in front of the apse, which was vaulted with warheads from the beginning, are difficult to explain. The radical restoration that the church underwent between 1853 and 1885 permanently erased the clues that could have made it possible to understand the...