Of the abbey church of St.-Jean-des-Vignes at Soissons, pulled down at the beginning of the nineteenth century, there remain only the façade and the western towers and spires. The rest of the building can be reconstructed thanks to the survival of ample illustrations. It was a church of basilical form, following the Gothic style of Picardy and Reims. Planned in the shape of a Latin cross, it had a square-ended eastern arm and also a triforium. Its somewhat archaic choir was unvaulted and was probably built about 1200–30, as were the transepts. The nave appears to have been built between 1340 and 1478.