6. Vernon to Vétheuil

Historical monument, the collegiate church of Notre Dame is considered one of the most beautiful specimens of medieval architecture in France. Built between the 11th and 16th centuries, it is composed of different architectural styles: the choir and the transept are in Romanesque style while the rest of the building was rebuilt in different Gothic styles (radiant, flamboyant and late Gothic). Inside the building, you will discover an organ dating from the beginning of the 17th century and restored in 1979. Magnificent abstract stained glass windows were installed in the 1970s to replace those destroyed during the Second World War.

The church is of Romanesque origin.
The oldest part is the hemicircular apse vaulted in cul-de-four which dates from the beginning of the 11th century.
It is separated from the choir by a doubleau decorated with a torus falling on each side on a column whose base had claws and whose capital decorated with hooks has its tailloir decorated with diagonals and a sowing of spikes.
The rest of the building was built between the 15th and 16th centuries. The north and south aisles, with two and three bays respectively, are vaulted over a cross vault and illuminated by mullioned windows and filled with either Renaissance or flamboyant elements.
Outside you can see the dolmen and the tomb of the painter Claude Monet.

Claude Monet lived from 1883 to 1926, or forty-three years, in his house in Giverny. Fascinated by gardening as much as by colours, he designed his flower garden and water garden as real works of art. Walking in his garden and in his house, visitors always feel the atmosphere that reigned in the master of Impressionism and marvel at the flower compositions and the water lilies that were his most fertile sources of inspiration. Several hundred canvases represent landscapes of the Seine valley and Vétheuil his first residence.

The church was built in the first quarter of the 19th century. It was patronized by the abbot of Saint Ouen of Rouen. The building is built in alternating apparatus of cut stones and pebbles. The clock was placed on the wall of the nave.

This church, located in Gommecourt, essentially Gothic belongs to the first half of the 16th century, except for the nave which is of Romanesque origin. The building was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century. Saint Crépin and Saint Crépinien are shoemaker brothers who were martyred in Soissons in 287. They then became the patron saints of shoemakers.

The castle has been leaning against the chalk cliff since the Middle Ages. An underground gallery gives access to the keep from the castle. This ancient fortress has undergone several alterations over the centuries, offering its visitors a strange journey through time.
From the medieval keep to the 18th century stables, from the first troglodytic spaces to the experimental vegetable garden of the Enlightenment.
A Merovingian necropolis attests to the presence of Christians in the High Middle Ages. A first troglodytic castle was built around 1066 to defend the Île-de-France, royal territory, as part of the fortification of the river Epte located on the border of Normandy. The Guy de la Roche family occupies the land from the 10th to the 15th centuries, it embellishes the site. In the 17th century the de La Rochefoucauld family became the owners, work is undertaken to build the current castle.
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