Notre Dame de Mantes

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The Collège Notre-Dame de Mantes-la-Jolie is a former collegiate of the 12th and 13th centuries located in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines, France) on the banks of the Seine. It was listed as a Historic Monument in 1840. This church recalls Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris by style and its elevation on three levels.

The Collège Notre-Dame consists, beyond the facade massif, of a nave of seven vaulted bays of sexpartites flanked by quadripartite vaulted collaterals. The high ship is on three levels: large arcades in broken arches resting on a alternation of weak piles and strong piles, arched stands quadripartite and in broken transverse cradles, and finally high windows in broken arch. The bedside, which completes the composition, was originally girded from no chapel.

The radiant chapels, as well as those of the lower side, are additions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The western facade is pierced by three large sculpted gates surmounted by a rose, which crown two towers whose appearance was profoundly altered by the restorations of the nineteenth century. This arrangement is inspired by the model of the cathedral of...