Saint georges xix church

One large nave, 8 metres wide, and two smaller side naves, 4 metres wide, making a total width of 16 metres. Bell tower height: 30 meters. Total length of the building: 36 meters, including the choir and excluding the tower. Height of main nave, from pavement to keystone: 13 meters. Height of the smaller naves: 11.50 meters.

The central nave, including the transept, which is barely visible from the inside, has 5 bays separated by fine webbed pillars: the longest of these forms the fore-center, with its last doubleau serving as a triumphal arch, the supports of which support the side altars of the transept arms. The 5 bays are ribbed with doubleaux, with a pointed-arch opening onto the aisles replacing the formets. The same 5 bays are found in the side aisles, which are also rib-vaulted and double-arched, but without formets against the walls, plus two smaller bays framing the tower, which is in the work.

The heart has a bay identical to those in the central nave, and an odd-numbered polygonal apse with 5 sides separated under the vaults by 6 ribs meeting at an axial keystone.


Extract from the article Des origines de Saizerais à l'aube du XXe siècle by Samuel Germain in www.saizerais.fr/le-village/histoire-de-saizerais/