Église Saint-Christophe de Cergy

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Saint Christophe Church is a parish Catholic church located in Cergy, France. Its extraordinary Renaissance gate facing the village and its Romanesque bell tower, which is one of the oldest in the department with two floors, attracts attention. Crossing the gate, one enters into a kind of open-air vestibule, which offers views of architectural remains and masonry removals, and gives the image of a partially ruined church.

This is not entirely the case, for the work undertaken at the Renaissance was never completed, but the former Romanesque nave of the years 1130 / 1140 was indeed demolished in 1904. It was old, and its suppression facilitated the work of consolidating the bell tower in 1905. The present western facade and the walls closing down the south-renaissance side date back to that time.

From the inside, the church presents itself as a square space of three spans long and three spans wide, almost homogeneous with the exception of the base of the bell tower which remains Romanesque. It has one of the oldest arches of warheads preserved in the region as well as six historic capitals of the years 1130 / 1140, but...