Église Notre-Dame
Rue Hélène-Boucher, 14160 Dives-sur-Mer
The Church Notre-Dame is the most old(former) monument listed(classified) by Dives-sur-Mer (1888). The most old(former) part(party) goes back up(raises) to the XIth century (of this time(period) the pillars of the central tower and an arcade of the north transept remain(subsist)). The church was extended in the XIVth century s. in radiant(shining) Gothic style (chorus(choir) and nave) and in the XVth and XVIth century s. in style Flamboyant Gothic (chapel and portal(gate)). She(It) contains splendid stained-glass windows of the end of the XIXth century, among which the one redraws the legend of the Christ saint Sauveur, at the origin of the construction of the building. In 1862, a list of the companions(journeymen) of William the Conqueror engraved in the stone is put above the front wall(pediment). She(It) memorialises their departure of Dives-sur-Mer with the famous duke of Normandy for the conquest of England in 1066.
Tags
Édifice religieux, Monument historique
Access
Taken(Brought) out highway A13 DOZULE; park DIVES-CABOURG SNCF; drunk environmentalists of Calvados line 20 stop(ruling) Pasteur or Thorez.
