Église Saint-Germain-de-Paris de Hardricourt

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Saint-Germain-de-Paris is a parish Catholic church located in Hardricourt, Yvelines, France. It is a small building, organized around a nucleus of two spans of late Romanesque style of the second quarter of the 12th century, not visible from the outside. One is the base of the bell tower, the other the first span of the choir.

They have two of the oldest arches of warheads of the French Vexin, which already have a fairly pronounced third-point layout. The two side chapels and the apse in the hemicycle have lost all character since their reconstruction in modern times. The unique nave is also of little interest, but nevertheless has a beautiful walled structure, and four large arches blocked to the north, which also date from the second quarter of the 12th century, and constitute the last vestiges of the old north side.

Their archaeological value lies in the fact that they represent one of the first occurrences of large arcades falling on isolated monocylindrical pillars, which will become characteristic of many Gothic churches in the region. The most remarkable element of the...