Église Saint-André de Moussy

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Saint Andrew's Church is a parish Catholic church located in Moussy, France. It is one of the most archaic Romanesque churches of the French Vexin, and one of the few that were not built on a single ship, and whose original transept was preserved. Its two crusions are equipped with small apsidioles.

The vaulting uses the three main techniques that are used during the Romanesque period: the arch vault for the crossing of the transept; the cradle vault for crucifixes and absidioles; And the cul-de-four vault for the apse. The church is listed as historical monuments by order of 16 June 1926. The single nave, simply capped, and the Renaissance bell tower of the third quarter of the 16th century were destroyed by the allied bombings in 1944, which targeted the German V1 hidden in the underground quarries of Nucourt.

Only the Renaissance gate and the southern wall of the base of the bell tower remain. The church then remained abandoned for about fifteen years. The restoration of the oriental parts, which remained standing, and the construction of a new nave began in the late 1950s, and the church was consecrated for...