St-Pierre-St-Paul (Arronville)
The Roman Catholic Church of St-Pierre-St-Paul in Arronville , a French commune in the Val-d'Oise department of the Île-de-France region , was built from the 12th century. The church has been a protected architectural monument ( Monument historique ) since 1943 .
history
The church was built on the site of a Merovingian necropolis . Until 1792 the family members of the manorial de Balincourt family, who had the right of patronage , were buried in the church. Major renovations took place in 1858.
architecture
The oldest part of the three-nave church is the choir from the 12th century. The Romanesque capitals are decorated with plant motifs, animals and human heads. The crossing tower has coupled arched windows on all sides and stepped buttresses at its corners . A round window is located above the simple portal in the form of a profiled round arch. The portal and the long sides are structured by buttresses.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , p. 619.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Church of Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 55.1 ″ N , 2 ° 6 ′ 49 ″ E