Église Saint-Étienne de Cambronne-lès-Clermont

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The Saint-Étienne Church is a parish Catholic church that began in the 12th century and ended in the 13th century in Gothic and Romanesque style located in Cambronne-lès-Clermont, in the Oise, in the Hauts-de-France region of France. The building has been classified as historic monuments since 1875. It consists of two distinct parts, the nave with its two dissimilar collaterals and the choir with its two collaterals, separated by one of the rare two-storey octagonal bell towers that dominate the transept, not externally identifiable.

Among the medium-sized churches of the Oise, it is one of the most important on the archaeological and artistic level, with the nearby Saint Lucian church of Bury that of Villers-Saint-Paul. Its interest lies in the visibility of the four successive construction campaigns; almost no changes since its signing in December 1239; the curious arrangement of the south side of the nave where two rows of columns with capitals were superimposed; one of the first naves to have been designed from the beginning to be vaulted with warheads, around 1130; one of the oldest arches of warheads in the region, in the cruise...