Church building

Église Saint-Nicolas de Meulan-en-Yvelines

église Saint-Nicolas de Meulan

France Meulan-en-Yvelines classified historical monument
Église Saint-Nicolas de Meulan-en-Yvelines
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Saint-Nicolas Church is a parish Catholic church located in Meulan-en-Yvelines, France. It has been the only Catholic church in the city since the French Revolution. Behind its sober neo-classical façade of 1764, adorned with a purely functional bell tower of the same year, and behind its dilapidated lateral walls without any character, is a Gothic building built in two countrysides in the third quarter of the 12th century and in the first quarter of the 13th century, with regard to the first two spans.

Église Saint-Nicolas de Meulan-en-Yvelines

The church of Saint-Nicolas is distinguished above all by its plan to walk without radiant chapels, and without transept. Curiously enough, the four cylindrical pillars of the apse's roundabout carry vaulted capitals of an archaic Romanesque style. Otherwise, there are Gothic capitals with good water leaves and acanthe leaves, and still seven arches of warheads with large ribs remaining from the first construction campaign.

Église Saint-Nicolas de Meulan-en-Yvelines

However, the church remained unfinished, and the floor of the high windows was never built. So the central ship is dark. In the first quarter of the 16th century, we resolved to cover it with vaults...

Église Saint-Nicolas de Meulan-en-Yvelines