Église Saint-Léger d'Éméville

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The church Saint-Léger is a parish Catholic church located in Éméville, Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France. It is one of the smallest churches in the department. Built under a single campaign at the end of the 13th century, it provides one of the few examples of a church of that time in Valois, and illustrates the adaptation of the Gothic style radiating then into the economy of the means of a small rural parish.

The stylistic compromises are numerous, and there are only the choir capitals to indicate the time of actual construction, while the windows in the middle of the hanger evoke a date of a previous century. The church is nevertheless carefully equipped with cut stone, and has a powerful bell tower influenced by the Champagne Gothic school, which does not have its same in the vicinity. Inside, the remains of architectural polychromy attract attention, especially in the chapel that forms the base of the bell tower.

There was once a second chapel, slightly different, which ran south. Saint-Léger Church was classified as historical monuments by order of 6 April 1937. Because...