This year’s theme (SUSTAINABLE HERITAGE) gives us the opportunity to ask ourselves because our church is very sick! Over time, the sea air loaded with salt and moisture degraded the stones, slates and frames of the stained glass windows. A restoration has become absolutely necessary to stop the degradation and give it a new youth that allows it to bear witness to its history and that of the men who built it, those men who used stone, wood, slate, sand, pigments…
It is the same for our seaside heritage or the coastal battery of the Crèche that must be taken care of, the city of Wimereux having on its territory these three representative elements of religious, civil and military architecture.
Stonemasons and slate cutters, carpenters, master glassmakers and glaziers, have a know-how that crosses the eras and constitutes a whole part of our intangible heritage. These ancestral practices used natural resources that were thought to be inexhaustible. Today we know how fragile they are. But the transmission of traditional techniques and re-employment are once again assets to build the world of tomorrow!
Discover in this exhibition the main stages of construction, evolutionary work, and this emblematic building of Wimereux around which the City was built in the 2nd half of the 19th century from simple dunes deserted in the sand.
More information: https://sauvonsleglisedewimereux.fr/events/journees-europeennes-du-patrimoine-2022-2/