Church building

Église Saint-Aubin de Cauffry

église Saint-Aubin de Cauffry

France Cauffry classified historical monument
Église Saint-Aubin de Cauffry
Église Saint-Aubin de Cauffry · Wikipedia

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Saint Aubin Church is a parish Catholic church located in Cauffry, France. It is composed in particular of a nave of Romanesque origin, strongly redesigned, and a bell tower in a building and a choir dating from the last quarter of the 12th century. Representing the period of transition from novel to gothic, they still carry all the characteristics of Romanesque architecture, but are vaulted with warheads from the beginning.

In its physiognomy and with its very simple initial plan, with a bell tower interposed between the nave and the choir, the church Saint-Aubin is perfectly representative of the rural churches of Beauvais of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The cornices known as beauvaisines and the triplet of the flat bedside are also very common elements in the region in the 12th century. After the choir, authentic but simple, the building bell tower represents the most remarkable part of the church.

Its belfry floor, with its two bays gemelated by face subdivided into two small arcades each and flanked by multiple columns with capitals, belongs to a typical type of region. Appearing in the last quarter of the 12th century, it becomes the archetype of a number...