Pontoise Cathedral

Pontoise Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Church located inside the metropolis of Pontoise on the outskirts of Val d Oise in Paris, France. The cathedral dedicated to Saint Maclovius otherwise Saint Malo has been the Episcopal seat of the Diocese of Pontoise considering the fact that its introduction in 1966. It was previously a parish church. Construction started out within the 12th century at the site of an ancient chapel of Saint Eustace and the building become enlarged and completed in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Pontoise Cathedral becomes no longer built as a cathedral, but as a parish church inside the northern part of the metropolis of Pontoise, around the middle of the 15^th century. The first parish priest turned into named Robert and was alive in 1165. There isn't any document of a parish of Saint Maclou till 1213, and it become possessed of a double remedy until 1736, a peculiarity that would be defined by means of an older chapel of Saint Eustache having coexisted for a time with the church of Saint Maclou, in any other case through the department of a seigniorial inheritance comprising altar revenues.