Église Saint-Médard de Creil

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Saint-Médard Church is a Catholic parish church located in Creil, France. Built from the beginning of the thirteenth century on the site of a previous church on the plan of a Greek cross, it was completed before the end of the same century. It quickly became too small and was profoundly altered in the 14th and 15th centuries, with the choir moving north-east at the site of the old north crusillon.

This solution was the only way to enlarge the church, confined in a tight urban fabric, with the city's wall of enclosure almost against its walls in the northeast. The southern crusillon and the transept cross have since served as a nave. Following the collapse of the vaults of the choir at the end of the Hundred Years' War, they were rebuilt at a lower level, but the old nave with its two sides remained almost unchanged.

Its northeast wall, however, was pierced in order to communicate this part with a high and elegant chapel, added in the corner with the new choir at the end of the 15th century. The church then takes its present form, but the sixteenth century still sees the construction of a new tower tower to the southwest...