Église Saint-Martin de Montjavoult

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Saint Martin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Montjavoult, Oise department, France. Built on the top of a hill, 207 m above sea level, it marks the landscape several kilometres away, and represents one of the main monuments of the former canton of Chaumont-en-Vexin. His great Renaissance portal, built around 1565 by Jean Grappin of Gisors, is his most remarkable element.

Like the large bell tower of the same time that adjoins it to the west, it would be worthy of a large city church. Inside, the vaulted southern collateral at the same height as the central vessel forms with the nave a vast unified volume of slender proportions, unexpected in a village today of no importance. Its flamboyant late style incorporates some Renaissance elements.

The rest of the church is much more modest, and was built mostly between the end of the 15th century and the first quarter of the 16th century in the flamboyant Gothic style, partly taking over older structures, including the base of a 12th century central bell tower. In the nave as well as in the choir and its collaterals, we observe types of pillars...