Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption d'Auvers-sur-Oise

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Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Church is a parish Catholic church located in Auvers-sur-Oise, in the French department of Val-d'Oise and the Île-de-France region. It was founded in the late 11th century by Philip I, then rebuilt under the impulse of Adelaide de Savoie, who often resides in the royal mansion north of the church after the death of her husband Louis VI in 1137. This reconstruction begins with the eastern parts and ends with the nave, which shows a rise on three levels with triforium.

It is made in the late Romanesque style still evident in the capitals, quickly tilting towards the nascent Gothic style with broken arch windows and arches of warheads. The absidiole in the north is still purely Romanesque, but it is probably not before 1137. Two bedside windows were redesigned in the 13th century in the radiant Gothic style, which accentuated the stylistic gap between these two parts in contemporary reality.

The Church of Notre-Dame passed through the centuries without suffering any significant damage during the wars, and the only transformation undertaken was the addition of the chapel of the Virgin shortly before the mid-16th century. But...