Église Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Prothais de Bresles

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Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Prothais Church is a Catholic parish church located in Bresles, Oise, France. Its nave of the eleventh century is one of the oldest in Beauvais, and is built with small cubic stones recovered from destroyed Gallo-Roman buildings. On the gable of the facade, there is a crucifix in bas-relief.

All original bays and doors were blocked, and neo-Gothic windows were pierced around 1840. The interior is today characterized by an old-fashioned neo-Gothic decor. The eastern parts of the mid-16th century contrast favourably with this nave.

They are of a late Gothic style, which already incorporates Renaissance motifs on lamp-ends and vault keys. But the beautiful effect of the whole comes mainly from carefully ground double arches and complex warhead vaults with liernes and thirdrons. Particularly remarkable is the plan, which consists of a central vessel of three straight spans finished with a blind apse, and two collaterals.

Doubles on both sides of the first span, they then become simple by the expansion of the central ship. This plan is...