St-Denis (Cherence)

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Saint-Denis church

The Roman Catholic Church of St-Denis in Chérence , a French parish in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region , was built from the 12th century. The building has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 1962 .

architecture

The parish church consecrated to St. Dionysius was started in the 12th century, from this time the Romanesque nave has been preserved, which is vaulted by a wooden ceiling. It only has small windows. The transept and the choir are Gothic , they are provided with tracery windows and structured by buttresses . The tower, which is Romanesque in the basement and has Gothic windows on the upper floor, rises above the crossing . At the corners it is reinforced by buttresses.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise. Volume 2, Flohic Éditions, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , pp. 549-550.
  • Bernhard Duhamel: Guide des églises du Vexin français. Éditions du Valhermeil, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-905684-23-2 , pp. 97-98. (not evaluated)

Web links

Commons : St-Denis (Chérence)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église Saint-Denis de Chérence in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 16.1 "  N , 1 ° 40 ′ 33.6"  E