Église Saint-Germain de Mézy-sur-Seine

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Saint-Germain-de-Paris Church is a parish Catholic church located in Mézy-sur-Seine, Yvelines, France. Founded at the end of the 12th century, it was burned down and partially destroyed during the Hundred Years' War, then benefited from an integral reconstruction in the middle of the 16th century, with a new consecration in 1554. The Saint-Germain church thus represents one of the few churches entirely rebuilt in the flamboyant Gothic style in the French Vexin.

The influences of the Renaissance, which flourished during the period of reconstruction, were still limited to the modenature in the choir, and to the laying of part of the windows. The scheduling of the lateral elevations of the nave, with a floor of high windows, is probably inherited from the previous building, and the large arcades are apparently the arcades of the early thirteenth century detailed. The architecture offers no remarkable elements, and is quite rustic.

The church applies especially to the beautiful scale of the central ship. Remaining unfinished, it received most of its vaults only during the 1870s, but the bell tower was not built beyond the stump, and the western gate is...