Église Notre-Dame de Jambville

About

Notre Dame Church is a parish Catholic church located in Jambville, Yvelines, France. It is a small rectangular building with only ten spans and dates back partly to the 12th century. Redesigned repeatedly, it is quite emblematic of the small rural churches of the region, whose different parts adopt the sought-after architecture of large contemporary buildings, but are not built with the same rigour, and have many irregularities.

Apart from this, Notre-Dame Church has undergone irreparable degradation in the past. Both inside and outside, most capitals have thus lost their sculpture, no window remains more original, and the exterior elevations have been so radically restored that they only retain rare authentic elements. One can notably mention a Romanesque tympanum gridded north of the nave.

Otherwise, the Roman octagonal bell tower and its Gothic stone arrow are today the only elements worthy of interest outside. Inside, the nave and its vaulted collateral at the same height form an almost homogeneous set of flamboyant Gothic style...