Église Saint-Antoine de Compiègne

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Saint-Antoine Church is a parish Catholic church located in Compiègne, France. Like the church of Saint-Jacques, the other church of the city centre, it was founded in 1199 and was closely dependent on the abbey of Saint-Corneille, which owned the patronage of all the cures of the city. Construction took place during the first half of the 13th century, but the church was profoundly transformed in the 16th century, probably because of the damage suffered during the Hundred Years' War, and it thus presented itself as a fairly homogeneous building in flamboyant Gothic style.

The façade and the choir with its collaterals and its walkway date entirely from the 16th century; with their rich carved decor and a great elegance and fineness of forms, these are the most remarkable parts of the church. Inside, these parts are also the most interesting, characterized by prismatic supports and vaults with a particular drawing with liernes and thirdons. The nave and its sides are, however, quite monotonous and show little stylistic research.

The church lost most of its works of art in 1768, when a priest anxious to make the interior...