2024

THE CHURCH OF SAINT-RIEUL

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

The church bears the name of the first bishop of Senlis. Its steeple of the Xe was raised around 1140. Refined sculptures on the second floor of the steeple are remarkable, such as in its bays, bordeaux leaf capitals. Gothic style is shown on double-lancets windows surmounted by a rose, typical of the time. A transept and a new flat-hung chorus were grafted to the church around 1240. The cure is one of the oldest in Valois.

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2024

PRIORESS SAINT VICTOR

Monuments to visit

2 km from the village of Mercurey in the hamlet of Bray (towards Brasseuse). Built on a promontory, this priory, which has a beautiful Gothic chapel, a cellar and a pigeon, served as a dependency on the mighty abbey Saint-Victor in Paris. In 1249, the Lord of Senlis Guy le Bouteiller, who was preparing to go into a crusade with Saint Louis, made a donation to the order of the Augustins. In 1773, at the death of the last Prior of Bray, they set up the priory for the sake of economics, before being reunited under the Revolution. The rehabilitation of this set of th century buildings is engaged with the help of an association.

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