St. Martin's Church

The Saint-Martin church is a Catholic parish church located in Maimbeville, in the Oise department, in France. It was built under a single campaign during the first half of the 16th century, in the flamboyant Gothic style. Externally, the squat bell tower and low aisle walls suggest a modest rural church, and the unfilled windows suggest a rustic construction. The otherwise slender transept and apse seem out of step with the western parts. Inside, the church of St. Martin is homogeneous, but also unfinished. The nave is just as high as the choir, and the width of the central nave is considerable. The large arcades, the undulating pillars and the ribbed vaults of the eastern parts are very neat. Thus it was the ambition of the architectural project that certainly prevented the vaulting of the nave and the aisles, and delayed the execution of the south aisle, while the windows seem to have had flamboyant networks, which only seem to have disappeared. Following the model of the church in Nointel, the nave was finally fitted with ribbed vaults in light materials after 1870, while the aisles retain their temporary flat ceilings. As an emblematic building of the reconstruction after the Hundred Years' War, the church of Saint-Martin was classified as a historical monument by decree of December 1, 1950. Since January 1, 2018, the church has been affiliated with the parish of the Heart of Christ of Clermont.