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The old presbytery
Becoming the town hall

From a parish property …

Almost next to the church and accessible thanks to a flight of stairs, the old presbytery was erected by the  Count Gédéon René de Sailly, Seigneur of Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies. Dating from 1747, the erection took place at the same time as the reconstruction of the church. The Count de Sailly gave the presbytery to the parish the following year, not long before he died. This building would host the  priests of Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies who took care of the place  and of the layout. A closed garden was also put at the service of the clergymen. Considered being important people within the villages at the end of the Ancien Régime, the priests were in charge of the religious services as well as of the sacraments but also of the register of births, marriages and deaths. After the French Revolution, this duty  was transferred to the  town hall.

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… to a state building

In 1905, during the promulgation of the law on the separation of Church and State, the presbytery became the property of the municipality of Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies. It kept on hosting clergymen until the middle of the 20th century. The Mairie then rented it during several years, up till the 1990s. The building at that time showed the different occupancies, notably with openings (doors and windows) added as time went by, as well as coatings that weren’t homogeneous anymore. The building was then restored to host two council flats as well as the Mairie which was until now at the top of the village, in the present school. The Mairie of Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies is therefore today set up in a traditional Vexin architecture building.