Église Notre-Dame d'Us (Val-d'Oise)

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Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativity Church is a parish Catholic church located in Us, Val-d'Oise, France. It responds to a simple cruciform plan, with a nave without low side, and at the same time dissymmetric, because the north crusillon has Romanesque archatures and a cul-de-four apsidiole of the second quarter of the 12th century, while a large chapel of Gothic style radiating occupies the location of the old south crusillon. His vaults and capitals hold their inspiration from the Sainte-Chapelle, but the networks of the windows deploy drawings that refer to a later period.

The most interesting parts of the central ship, the cross of the transept, at the same time base of the bell tower, and the choir composed of a straight span and a seven-sided polygonal apse, were apparently built in two phases, with a long interruption of the construction site: two ungrounded double arches of the cross of the transept, the bell tower and the exterior elevations evoke the first years of Gothic in the third quarter of the 12th century, while the vaults of the choir and its columns with capitals do not seem much anterior to the middle of the 13th century. The...