page_title: Notre Dame de Morienval
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Notre Dame de Morienval / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Plan au milieu du XIIe siècle. Les murs et piliers marqués en blanc n'existent plus. Le plan actuel est toutefois en grande partie conforme à l'état du milieu du XIIe siècle, si l'on ne tient pas compte du voûtement d'ogives de la nef et de la croisée, et du voûtement d'arêtes du bas-côté nord. Sinon, les seules différences concernent le portail du bas-côté nord qui ne date que de 1608 et le remaniement du bas-côté sud au XVIIe siècle, qui n'a pas été revoqué par les restaurations.
context_page_description: The Abbey of Notre Dame de Morienval or the Church of St. Denis is a former Benedictine church located in Morienval, Oise Department, northern France. Since the abolition of the nunnery in 1745, the abbey has functioned as the parish church for Morienval. The few convent buildings not demolished after the French Revolution are privately owned and are not open to the public.
context_section_description: The abbey church, now dedicated to Saint Denis, was built according to a roughly symmetrical cruciform plan that has generally remained unchanged, except for the addition of the Early Gothic chapel. The church stands on a northeast-southwest orientation, irregular for a church. Its layout consists of a one-bay narthex at the base, a three-bay nave with two aisles in the middle, a single-bay transept with attached bays flanking the choir that were the bases to a pair of rectangular towers, one bay long and connected to a semicircular apse of the same length, and an ambulatory four bays long. There is an imbalance in the nave's aisles, though they are of the same length.
caption: Plan of the church as it appeared in the mid-12th century
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