Église Saint-Fiacre-et-Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Livilliers

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Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativity-et-Saint-Fiacre de Livilliers is a Catholic parish church located in Livilliers, France. The chapel of Livilliers was given to the abbey of Saint-Martin de Pontoise before 1150, and was erected as a parish church in 1175. Shortly afterwards, the construction of the current building began, integrating the pre-existing Romanesque bell tower.

Despite its modest dimensions, the master of the church of Livilliers adopted, for the nave, a three-level elevation inspired by Notre-Dame de Paris. It is therefore the smallest church in the area to present a false triforium above the large arcades. On the other hand, the choir is limited to a single span completed by a flat bedside, illuminated by a two-leancet bay similar to the arcades of the simulated triforium.

The liturgical choir can be added to the span under the central bell tower, taken up as a sub-work towards the end of the seventeenth century, when the belfry floor is also rebuilt. Two-span chapels flank the base of the bell tower and the choir on either side. Doubts weigh on the vaulting or not of the nave sides at the time of their construction.

Unfinished or collapsed, these vaults...