Vendeuil-Caply

Vendeuil-Caply is a common French, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.

Geography

The commune of Vendeuil-Caply is the association of two Hameau X apart 1.500 meters one of the other,

Vendeuil on a side which shelters a hundred hearts, and
Caply , hamlet located on the Trunk road 1 (RN1) become at the beginning of 2007, the Secondary road 1001, which gathers approximately 350 inhabitants.

The Noye, small river of the north of the Picardy Plateau takes its source on the territory of Vendeuil-Caply.

History

Vandolium in 1120

Vendeuil-Caply is famous for its ancient site which, centered on the valley Saint Denis, between the mount Catelet and that of Calmont, to two kilometers in the south of the church Saint Martin, extended on 130 hectares. Only well preserved vestige of this city Gallo-Roman E today disappeared, capital of a Pagus of the Civitas of the Bellovaques, the theater of Ier and 2nd centuries testifies to what was its last importance. The invasions of the end of the 3rd century will be fatal for him and the habitat will move towards north, in Vendeuil. The ancient site will not be however completely abandoned as the existence of a church dedicated to Saint Denis proves it, disappeared today, who was built in the cemetery isolated located in edge from D 916. After the invasions Normans, Vendeuil will lose, in its turn its importance with the profit of the borough Féodal of Breteuil.

Vendeuil was perhaps " Bratuspantium" , capital of Bellovaques.
Important Gallo-Roman site of.
With the Middle Ages the ground belonged to the lords of the manor of Breteuil whose castle was destroyed in 1434 by the Burgundian ones.

Saint Martin's day Church of origin (IMH): beautiful tomb stone of Jean of Holy-Beuve 1489, stalls, baptismal font, stoup, statuette out of wooden of holy Catherine.
Oratorical.

Administration

Demography

404 inhabitants with the last census of January 2004. The population grew of 8% in 5 years. At January 1st, 2007, the common one counts 464 inhabitants, that is to say an increase of 20% since 1999.

Places and monuments

The Saint Martin's day church

Built in the middle of the cemetery, the Saint Martin's day church occupies a situation isolated with little distance the zone Marécage uses which accompanies Noye, here at the beginning of its course. Its plan includes/understands a single Nef preceded by a Clocher porch and finished by a chorus with flat bedside of two spans flanked of two Chapelle S. Réparée with very many recoveries, the nave is of very old origin as show it part of its northern wall, built in small square stones (pastoureaux) which probably comes from the ancient city, and a door now stopped whose archivolt consists of rather thin archstones. These characteristics do not prohibit to date the nave before at the 11th century. In the nave a statue is also visible with the effigy of holy Jeanne d' Arc as proves it the armorial bearings affixed with its feet. It is at the beginning of the 13th century that the chorus will be rebuilt. Its two spans are covered with shaped ribbed vaults out of almond received on capital X decorated with hooks. A simple lancet perforates each side wall of the second span, whose flat bedside is bored of a large window with blazing rubble filling which replaced the primitive opening, which was certainly a triplet (three coupled lancets). The 16th century will see the construction of a vault, in the north of the first span of the chorus (that of the south was very remade at the 19th century) and, especially, of the splendid bell-tower forming porch. Shoulder with the angles by very projecting buttresses finished as bâtières, the ground floor east covered with a ribbed vault to hanging key. The south-eastern angle is occupied by a turret of staircases. In frontage, opens a rich person gate with openwork tympanum. Its archivolt is prolonged by a gable in accodance framed by high and narrow blind blind arcades. Above, the tower itself, high and naked, contrast by its austere pace which hardly the two geminated bays attenuate which open on each face of the stage of the Beffroi. Among furniture, it is especially necessary to retain the beautiful baptismal tank of the 13th century and, in the Sacristie, an exceptional cupboard of the 17th century coming from the Abbaye of Breteuil (but which was loosely recently catch). The church Saint Martin's day de Vendeuil-Caply was classified with the Historic buildings in 1990. It is, since 1995, the object of a restoration of great scale. What should enable him to find its face of antan.

Since 2004, a construction project of an archaeological museum of regional importance is in hand. It should allow the exposure of archaeological artefacts.

Archeological site of Vendeuil-Caply

Located at 2,5 kilometers in the south of the town of Breteuil, between the road of Beauvais and that of Just Saint in Roadway, the ancient site of Vendeuil-Caply extends on nearly 130 hectares (maximum extension of the structures located by air archeology) and also part of the communes bordering on Beauvoir and Saint Andre-Farivillers. The Catelet mount, in the North-East, culminates with 140 meters and covers a score of hectares. Its slopes are escarpées only on its southern face. Calmont, in south-west rises with 152 meters. It is a vast wooded eminence which covers approximately 60 hectares. Its slopes are very steep; a little softer in north. It is attached, in the east, the large plate by a narrow passage. The valley Saint-Denis, or Valendon, is today a dry valley, which extends between these two hills, along a East-West axis. The Cold-Mount also culminates with 152 meters, presents plumb with the Valley Saint-Denis, same the precipice natural, in arc of circle, that those quite visible of Catelet. If the source of Noye is currently in the north of the valley, in antiquity the river were born with eight kilometers from there, in south-west, passing to the foot of Calmont. A network of affluents accompanied this old course; one circumvented the southern side of Calmont, while an other traversed of is in west the Saint-Denis valley. Thus Calmont was surrounded on its three sides by a river and marshes. It was thus a position provided well in natural defense.

Calmont comprised certainly a oppidum (Gallic strengthened camp). Artificial traces of defense were observed there, but decisive research remains to be carried out. It is thus in the Saint-Denis valley that the essence of the Gallo-Roman city will settle. The surface occupied by this one corresponds about to the surface of a 1200 meters length rectangle and to a width higher than 1000 meters.

The oldest text making state of the vestiges of the site goes back to the end of the 16th century. It is about a report/ratio written in 1574 at the request of the Prince of Condé, Seigneur of Breteuil. At the 17th century, the site is called " Peru of Antiquaires" such an amount of one finds objects there to enrich the collections by certain private cabinets, such that of Sully, lord of Vendeuil. It is Louvet, a historian of the area which it first observed in the cereal fields the layout of the streets. At the beginning of the 19th century, Cambry, first prefect of Oise and set on history, made there make research. One owes him the first engravings and descriptions of furniture like some observations on the ground. In 1843, abbée Devic publishes an important study, well with accompanying notes and supplemented of a plan of its observations. Though vague, one distinguishes from this point of view: the way from Beauvais to Amiens, the hill of Catelet and the Saint-Denis Valley. One notes the site of the large-theater there, the existence of a thicket attesting that it was there the last place of the ancient city to be given in culture. Fragmentary research continued until the First World War day before where the existence of a theater and thermal baths was announced. It is an air stereotype, carried out by the I.G.N., into 1955 which is at the origin of the research undertaken on the ground since 1956. This stereotype at summer supplemented by those of Roger Agache and François Vasselle. The compilation of these air sights, the observations carried out on the ground and the archaeological excavations of these twenty last years carried out successively by Gerard Dufour, make it possible to outline a plan and a history of this city. The hill of Catelet, in north, is one of the most remarkable whole of the site. A Roman camp probably of the time Cesarean, occupies a surface of approximately 10 hectares. It is provided with a door, titulus, and has a complex system of secondary defenses. A double buried track allowed its supply.

The small theater, partially excavated, is a modest construction. Its plan is presented in the form of a prolonged half-circle of two parallel straight lines. Its diameter is approximately 73 meters. The lower part of the cavea (half-circle of the steps) and orchestrated it (central zone of the theater) were excavated in the original ground (chalk), while the remainder of the cavea rested on a fill which the wall maintained peripheral outside. It is probable that only the bottom of this cavea comprised steps, the remainder being perhaps only one grassy slope. The construction of this monument would be datable quarter of after J. - C.

Personalities related to the commune

Economy

The commune enjoys an important space and has on its territory, several zones of activities: a Sawmill, a company of general mechanics, as well as many Craftsman S (Mason S…), glazier, etc

Teaching

The commune is a young village, which has an elementary school gathering all the sections of nursery school. It belongs to the school regrouping of Saint-Andre-Farivillers/Vendeuil-Caply. The nursery school of Vendeuil-Caply is the Rene-Guédé school since June 18th, 2005.

Community life

The common one developed a very important associative fabric for a small commune like this one. The commune has an association of leisures, a company of hunting, a club of the third age, a club of the friendship, an association of gymnastics, a association of astronomers amateurs and a section of war veterans as well as a parochial association. The Association of the Friends of Vendeuil-Caply wishes to revisit the very rich history of the commune since Antiquity.

See too

Common of Oise

External bonds

Vendeuil-Caply on the site of the national geographical Institute
Vendeuil-Caply on the site of INSEE
Vendeuil-Caply on the site of Quid
Localization of Vendeuil-Caply on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Vendeuil-Caply on Mapquest

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