Belloy-en-France
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Belloy-en-France is a commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise is a French department, created in 1968 after the split of the Seine-et-Oise department and located in the Île-de-France region. In local slang, it is known as "quatre-vingt quinze" or "neuf cinq"...

 department in Île-de-France
Île-de-France (région)
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 in northern France
France
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Monuments

The Saint Georges church was built in the 13th century on the site of a primitive sanctuary, a very early place of pilgrimage. The façade is in Renaissance style; the gate (portal), sometimes attributed to Jean Bullant, consists of a tympanum concerning columns grooved in Corinthian capitals (big tops), any box of an entablement in the classic art very decorated, surmounted in the extremities of 2 let us dawdle. The salamander and the initial of the 1st king François appear on écoinçons.

The base of the bell tower and the chapel of the Virgo constitute the most oldest parts of the building. The choir is bent by diagonal ribs(nose cones) in star, vaults strengthened by liernes and tiercerons in the nave and the shoulders. Stony baptismal fonts decorated with bas-reliefs representing plant motives date 1524. The building possesses a tumulaire paving stone in double effigy of Guillaume de Belloy, a pulpit and woodwork of the 18th century and opposite, a Bench of work of the 17th century surmounted by a front wall(pediment).

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