Silly-Tillard

Title

Silly-Tillard

Also Known As

Silly lès Tillart , Tillart

Dates

Founded 1330s; Premonstratensian until 18th century

Dedication

Blaise

Medieval Diocese

Beauvais

Circary

Ponthieu

History

In the 1330s, Jean le Comte, a canon of Beauvais Cathedral, undertook the construction of a church at Silly-Tillard, which was to be served by brothers of the Premonstratensian abbey of Saint-Just-en-Chaussée.

Not to be confused with Silly (comm. Gouffern en Auge) or Silly-la-Poterie (comm. Silly-la-Poterie)

Heads of Community

Curates

Jean de Bellefosse, fl. 1384
Jean Cordier, fl. 1485
Nicolas le Boucher, fl. 1521
Josse Budin, fl. 1526
Louis Hamel, fl. 16th c.

Status

Parish church

Bibliography

Bonnet-Laborderie, Philippe. “La chantrerie de Tillart.” Groupe d’Etude des Monuments et Oeuvres d’art du Beauvaisis 11 (1981): 49–56.

Le Parisien. “Les incroyables trésors de la chapelle Saint-Blaise.” October 3, 2014. https://www.leparisien.fr/oise-60/les-incroyables-tresors-de-la-chapelle-saint-blaise-03-10-2014-4183307.php.

Molliard, Catherine. “Les vitraux du second quart du XIVe s. de l’église de Tillard.” Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Paris IV, 1982.

Parmentier, René. “La Chantrerie de Tillart et son église.” Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Archéologie, Sciences et Arts du Département de l’Oise 23 (1921): 123–54. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9607092p/f135.image.

Image Credit

The church at Silly-Tillard, 2011. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Ponthieu

Citation

“Silly-Tillard,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/830.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Saint-Just-en-Chaussée