Église Saint-Léger d'Agnetz

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Saint-Léger and Sainte-Agnès d'Agnetz Church is a parish Catholic church located in Agnetz, a village in the centre of the Oise department, in the Hauts-de-France region of France. The church surprises by the size of its volumes and its slender character, which do not seem to correspond to the small importance of the municipality, but which are partly explained by a larger territory in the past. Construction began around 1230 with the lower side, which, despite the earlier date, still evoked the primitive Gothic style.

The upper parts of the nave were completed in the middle of the 13th century and display a Gothic style radiating in full bloom, which is expressed in particular through the archatures of the false triforium and the elegant reamping of the windows. The nave is one of the main achievements of the radiant period in the region. The transept belongs largely to the same construction campaign, but the construction site stopped before it was completed, only to resume some 20 years later, around 1270-1280.

Then follow the windows of the southern crusillon and the choir with its two lateral chapels, whose construction extends to...