Belloy-en-France

Belloy-en-France
Belloy-en-France
Commune
	St. Georges
	Coat of arms
	Location of Belloy-en-France
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	Coordinates: 49°05′25″N 2°22′19″E / 49.0903°N 2.3719°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Fosses
Intercommunality	Carnelle Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Raphaël Barbarossa
Area 1	9.49 km2 (3.66 sq mi)
Population (2021)	2,228
• Density	230/km2 (610/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Belloy-en-France (French pronunciation: [bɛlwa ɑ̃ fʁɑ̃s] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. Belloy–Saint-Martin station has rail connections to Luzarches, Sarcelles and Paris.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,065	—
1975	1,710	+7.00%
1982	1,645	−0.55%
1990	1,540	−0.82%
1999	1,536	−0.03%
2007	1,819	+2.14%
2012	2,098	+2.90%
2017	2,189	+0.85%
Source: INSEE^[3]

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.

Belloy-en-France is the location of the only remaining French manufacturer of traditional tassels, Les Passementeries de l'île de France, as of 2019^[update].^[4]