St. Nicholas Church

The Saint-Nicolas church is a Catholic parish church located in Guiry-en-Vexin, France. It would have been built on the foundations of a previous church of the XIIIth century. Its plan is in the shape of a cross, without aisles. The bell tower dominates the façade and occupies part of the first bay of the nave. It is the opposite of a masterpiece. With the western portal and the first two bays of the nave, it dates from around 1557, and displays the Renaissance style. The rest of the central nave and the south cross date from the first half of the 16th century, and are in the flamboyant Gothic style. One finds there the windows with the most elaborate networks of the French Vexin. The northern cross is the oldest part of the church. It dates back to the 14th century and its windows are of late radiant style, but the vault is also flamboyant, and subdivided into three times three vaults. This is due to the particular plan of the transept, which has free pillars to the north and south of the crossing, and two vaults for the crossing and the southern crossing. This specificity is the main interest of the church, which was classified as a historical monument by decree of August 25, 1942. The church also contains one of the most important statues of the French Vexin. All these statues are in stone, and most of them date from the 15th and 16th centuries. Eighteen of them are classified as historical monuments. Since a long time, Guiry-en-Vexin is no longer an independent parish, and Sunday masses are now limited to one Eucharistic celebration per quarter.