Saint-Sulpice Church

The church of Saint-Sulpice in Heudicourt was built in the first half of the 16th century. It is similar to the church of Saint-Aubin in Doudeauville-en-Vexin in its structure and decorum.

Its facade is made of pseudidomos with cut flint facing alternated with layers of laid stones forming quoins. The base and buttresses are in sandstone.

The slate roof is supported by a wooden frame in the shape of an inverted hull worthy of a marine carpenter.

The interior plan, cruciform, is composed of a nave without aisles, a transept and a choir arranged in semi-octagon.

Each truss in the nave and transept is made up of crossbeams with arched, broken barrel trusses, all supported by exposed tiebeams. The valley trusses cross the transept crossing without supports, from corner to corner. This technique where trusses, purlins and rafters work together at the expense of the entrait, is described by Viollet-le-Duc in his Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XI e au XVI e siècle as specifically Anglo-Norman.

Polychrome panelling paves the intrados of the cradles between the trusses. The entraits are decorated at the ends of engoulants, enfourning with rage the ends of hundred-year-old beams.

In each bay, statues, arranged in corbels and painted in bright colors, distract the faithful from their prayer. One offers her bottle, the other her rosary, the wheelwright, all at work, shows us his wheel under the cheerful eye of an unknown illustrious donor.

Above the sanctuary, the keystone represents a kneeling angel holding the coat of arms of the de Fours family. At the corners of the transept crossing, the four evangelists are represented, three of them under their animal counterparts, the bull for Saint Luke, the eagle for Saint John and the lion for Saint Mark. Matthew, the flying man, occupies the last cardinal. Two 19th century plaster altarpieces are located on either side of the choir.

The church is placed under the vocation of Saint Sulpice. The church and the adjoining land have been classified as historical monuments since September 21, 1932.