Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles

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Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles Church is a Catholic church located in Cennevières-lès-Louvres, Val-d'Oise, France. It replaces an old church dedicated to Saint Médard, which was south of the village and was razed at the beginning of the eighteenth century at the latest. The present church was founded in the 14th century by the lord of Chennevières, Gilles Choisel, from where she holds her patron saint, Gilles l'Ermite.

The second patron saint, Saint Wolf, was not attested until the middle of the 16th century. It was at that time that a spacious Renaissance choir was built east of the Gothic nave. It is flanked by two chapels, one in the north dedicated to the Virgin Mary and hosts a statue of the Virgin to the Child from the beginning of the fourteenth century.

The decoration of the apse is particularly neat, and statue niches, two of which with richly worked dais, decorate the pillars. According to one inscription, the completion of the current choir can be located in 1577. At that time, it is still a tower associated with the nearby castle that acts as a bell tower.

It collapsed in 1718, and the seigneur M. Nouveau thus offered a new bell tower to the parish, which was low in height but with an arrow...