Nesles la Vallée church (France)

These photographies were taken in the Vexin Natural Park, in the west outskirts of Paris...
if you want to have a closer look, please follow this link

The Vexin represents 94 cities, 79.000 inhabitants on 66.000 hectares (or 26709 acres)


this is the heraldry of this former region:
I'm sorry but I don't know how to translate the following things... so I let them in french. For those who want more information, please follow this link

Le blason du Vexin français est de France ancien brisé d'un lambel d'hermine, armes du futur Louis VI le Gros, fils du roi Philippe I^er et successeur des comtes de Vexin, qui avaient l'honneur de porter l'oriflamme de Saint Denis à la tête de l'ost royal.

And its heraldry means d'azur semé de fleurs de lys d'or au lambel d'hermine brochant en chef sur le tout
from http://www.gaso.fr/

The Vexin is a former region in France, divided since the 10th century between the Norman Vexin (Vexin normand) and the French Vexin (Vexin français).
The Gaulish tribe of the Veliocassi, whose capital was at Rouen, gave their name to the region that became known as the Vexin, later to become a county. The Norman incursions under Rollo of Normandy were halted by the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in 911 which established the Duchy of Normandy and fixed its boundary with the territory of the Kingdom of France along the river Epte. This divided the county of Vexin into two parts:

• the Norman Vexin, which became part of the Duchy of Normandy and is now part of the French region of Haute-Normandie. It is bounded by the rivers Epte, Andelle and Seine.

• the French Vexin remained part of the Île-de-France. It straddles the current départements of Val-d'Oise and Yvelines and is bounded by the rivers Epte, Oise and Seine. A regional nature park was established in the French Vexin in 1995.

The roman church tower, originally isolated, was reunified to the church after its reconstruction at the end of the 12th century. Some interesting statues of the blessed Virgin are to be seen, one in wood of the 16th century, another one of the 14th century and the third one of the same century located in the right chapel. But I have no pictures of them...


All photographies taken with Canon Eos 350D, EFS 10-22 mm,

f/11, 1/320 sec, 400 ISO

f/10, 1/320 sec, 400 ISO

f/10, 1/250 sec, 400 ISO