Belloy-en-France

Belloy-en-France
St. Georges St. Georges
Coat of arms of Belloy-en-France Coat of arms
Belloy-en-France
Location within Île-de-France region Belloy-en-France
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Viarmes
Intercommunality	Carnelle Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Raphaël Barbarossa
Area1	9.49 km2 (3.66 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,831
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	95056 / 95270
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Belloy-en-France is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Monuments

The Saint Georges church was built in the 13th century on the site of a primitive shrine, a very early place of pilgrimage. The façade is in Renaissance style; the gate, sometimes attributed to Jean Bullant, consists of a tympanum leading to columns grooved in Corinthian capitals, the whole surrounded by a very decorated classic entablature, surmounted in the extremities by two roof lanterns. The salamander and the initials of the king Francis I of France appear on the spandrels.

The base of the bell tower and the chapel of the Virgin Mary are the oldest parts of the building. The choir has a rib vault, strengthened by liernes in the nave and the aisles.

The stone baptismal fonts date from 1524 and are decorated with bas-reliefs representing plants. The building also has a gravestone in double effigy of Guillaume de Belloy, a pulpit and an 18th-century panellings, opposite a 17th-century banc d'œuvre surmounted by a pediment.

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

• INSEE
• Association of Mayors of the Val d’Oise (French)

External links

• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (English)