Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul church in Gonesse

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Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Church is a parish Catholic church located in Gonesse, France. It is the largest church in France. It was built between 1180 and about 1305 under three main works, reusing the base and the first floor of a Romanesque bell tower of the second quarter of the 12th century.

The plan provides for a nave of eight spans accompanied by two sides; a choir composed of a straight span and an apse in the hemicycle; and a walk without radiant chapels, which is quite rare. Gothic architecture is very neat, and capitals are of high quality. The central vessel has a triforium or open attic galleries along its entire length.

The nave, which dates mainly from the period between 1245 and about 1305, corresponds to the party fixed by the architect who launched the construction of the north side at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and its conception is specific to the first Gothic period. The triforium is nevertheless of radiant Gothic style, and seems to be modelled on the Basilica of St.Denis. The high windows and vaults were never executed.

The eastern parts, built first...