Saint-Ouen Church

The Saint-Ouen church is a Catholic parish church located in Therdonne, in the Oise department, in France. It is totally isolated from the houses. Its vast single nave, repaired many times, goes back in part to the eleventh century, as suggested by its structure of small cubic stones recovered from dismantled Gallo-Roman buildings. Its transept and its choir, composed of a right bay and an apse with five sides, is of flamboyant Gothic style, and dates from the first quarter of the 16th century. At the level of the former diocese of Beauvais, this ensemble of meticulous execution represents one of the most remarkable flamboyant achievements in the rural environment. The consecration of the two chapels in the transept only took place late, in 1556. The bell tower, located south of the nave, near the south cross, was built between 1674 and 1676, and replaces a Romanesque bell tower that had fallen victim to bad weather, whose style it imitates. The portal is in classical style. The church of Saint-Ouen was classified as a historical monument by order of July 31, 1913. It is now affiliated with the parish of Saint-Louis de Bresles, and early Sunday masses are celebrated there irregularly.