Bellay-in-Vexin

Bellay-in-Vexin is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants are called Bellaysien () S.

Geography

The village is located on the plate of the French Vexin.

The commune is bordering on: Tanks, Moussy, Commeny, Cléry-in-Vexin and Nucourt.

History

The origin of the name comes from the Gallic betulla , birch and of the suffix - acum , field of, the village named Boeley in 1142.

Occupied as of the Antiquity as the discovery of a Gallo-Roman site and arena foundations attests it and baths on its territory, the village is quoted for the first time in 809 and is offered to the Abbaye of Saint-Denis in 829. Seigniory of the Montmorency at the 16th century, then Luynes at the 17th century, then the family of Bellay, the stronghold is sold in 1666 with the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris which preserves it until the Révolution.

Administration

Demography

Monuments and places of visit

the church holy-Madeleine (12th century-16th century) comprises a nave, a transept, a chorus with flat bedside surrounded by two vaults. The bell-tower capped as a bâtière was rebuilt seems T it in 1376 and is bored bays geminated in tierce point. The bell goes back to 1535. The vaults were added to the 16th century. The building contains historiés Romance capitals. It also has a retable of furnace bridge of the 18th century and a table of Charles-Alphonse Of Fresnoy (1611 - 1668) representative the Worship of the shepherds .

The firm of the Hospital (close to the church): the main building, known as “house of the governor”, goes back to the 16th century. It comprises mullioned windows and is surmounted by curious pigeon octagonal with carved cornice: it is acted in fact of a turret of staircase.

Heraldic

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Notes, sources and references

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