Église Saint-Pierre de Jaux

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Saint-Pierre Church is a Catholic parish church located in Jaux, Oise department, France. The building consists of two very heterogeneous parts, namely a short nave of two spans accompanied by two sides, and a vast Gothic choir-halle flamboyant three times three spans, with a flat bedside. The Romanesque bell tower of the first half of the twelfth century, mutilated, rises above the first span of the central vessel of the choir, which corresponds to the old cross of the transept.

The western facade and the south side walls are probably also Romanesque. Inside, however, the nave is flamboyant. Its vaults have never been built, and it must be considered unfinished.

The near absence of side windows is striking. It is the eastern parts of the church that are of interest. They were almost entirely rebuilt from the beginning of the 16th century, except for the bell tower, whose piles were taken up as sub-works.

The three vessels are homogeneous and vaulted at the same height. They are distinguished by their flamboyant architecture, which does not exclude a certain diversity of the forms of the pillars. The wide windows...