Église Saint-Romain de Wy-dit-Joli-Village

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Saint-Romain Church is a parish Catholic church located in Wy-dit-Joli-Village, Val-d'Oise department, France. According to tradition, it was founded around 625 by Saint Roman, who may be native of the surrounding area. The oldest parts of the present church are not before the end of the 11th or early 12th century; These are the western and northern walls of the nave, as well as the piles of the old bell tower, which rose above the first span of the choir.

The church was rebuilt from the end of the Romanesque period, about the middle of the 12th century, starting with the choir, and ending with the vaulting of warheads of the nave. After the addition of a chapel on the south side, which was to be of radiant Gothic style, the church was consecrated by Eudes Rigaud in 1255. Much later, after the end of the Hundred Years War, another chapel was built on the north side.

It is of flamboyant Gothic style, and is the only stylisticly homogeneous part of the building: everything else has indeed undergone reshaping, with at least the re-perceived windows. In 1682 the Romanesque bell tower collapsed, and the southern chapel was almost entirely...