Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Maurecourt, Catholic church in Maurecourt, France.
The Église Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in Maurecourt is built of limestone and rubble stone, with a steep roof of flat tile and slate. A slender slate spire with a small louvered window rises at one end of the roofline; the long wall has three tall round-arched windows between stone buttresses. Inside is a single nave whose ribbed vaults rest on semi-engaged columns with plain capitals; in the choir the capitals are Ionic with horns, and the hanging keystone of the sanctuary is carved.
Built in 1531, the church underwent various modifications over the centuries and was historically referred to as Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in 1571, reflecting changes in its religious dedication.
In the sacristy hangs a 16th-century Virgin and Child, painted by an unknown artist after the Italian painter Paolo Veronese. The canvas was listed as a monument historique on 17 June 1977.
The church stands in the commune of Maurecourt in the Yvelines, west of Paris. The main entrance is through the porch and turret rebuilt by diocesan architect Hippolyte Blondel in 1866. The nave is a single vessel, so the altar and choir are visible from the back rows; the side chapel with its dark wooden screen lies to the left.
The 16th-century Virgin and Child in the sacristy is the work of an unknown painter copying the Italian artist Paolo Veronese; it was listed as a monument historique on 17 June 1977. The bell now hanging was cast by the Paris founder Gallois, traded for two older bells when the bell tower was rebuilt.
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