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Vaulerand

 The Cistercian barn Vaulerand, built in the early 13th century, is the center of a vast farming complex and belongs to the Chaalis Abbey. The first mention of the endowment of the abbey Chaalis by Louis VI dated January 10, 1136. But the charter only mentions Vaulerand as a piece of land, the term ?barn? only appears in 1150 in a Bull of Pope Eugene III, involving the construction of farm buildings. Throughout the 12th century, the Vaulerand estate continued to grow, thanks to the donations granted by the regional nobility, through the acquisition and exchange of land especially with the Abbey of St. Denis and thanks to the clearing charged by the ?Convers? in the region. In 1248, the regrouped field is estimated at 385 hectares, producing about 2,000 quintals of grain at around 3,500 m3 of wheat sheaves. The storage capacity of the barn is about 7000 m3, which corresponds to the volume necessary to garner the two annual harvests of wheat.

The barn has an architecture of simplicity. The building consists of a nave and two aisles, two rows of twelve square pillars form thirteen bays. They have broken arches on which rests the structure. The decline of the farm is marked by the dismantling of the field during the fourteenth and 15th centuries. The Vaulerand barn is still used today for agricultural purposes.