Église Saint-Caprais, Grisy-les-Plâtres

The Saint-Caprais church is a Catholic parish church located in Grisy-les-Plâtres, in the French Vexin Regional Nature Park in France. It is a modest rural church of primitive Gothic style. Built at the beginning of the 13th century in a single construction campaign, it has never undergone any extensions or transformations affecting its structure. It has survived almost unharmed all the wars and especially the Hundred Years' War during which most of the churches in the region were partially destroyed. The interior is distinguished more by its homogeneity and regularity of plan than by the research of its architecture, which is tasteful but of great simplicity compared to other churches of the region of the same period. The exterior is dominated by the elegant bell tower, which seems to be of a great lightness and marks the apogee of the Gothic art in the Vexin. In the 16th and 18th centuries, the side aisles and the south cross were largely rebuilt without of course respecting the original style, but the vaults were nevertheless preserved in their entirety. The church was classified as a historical monument by decree of May 9, 1914 and has been almost entirely restored since then.