2024

CHURCH OF SAINT-GERVAIS-SAINT-PROTAIS

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

The Rhuis Church is one of the oldest Romanesque Romanesque buildings. It dates from the th century and is classified in Historical monuments. Its architecture: a nave of four spans ends by a chorus in the Chamber. Above the last span of the north-side and the th-century chapel is the-storey clocher tower, the oldest in northern France. The nave, built in the mid th century, deserves special attention by its astonishing simplicity: poles with lively angles and no drop, columns or pilaster crossed the walls. These same arcades sit on rectangular stacks thanks to impostes. On the south side, one of the oldest vaults of known warheads.

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