Basly, Baalleium-Yvetus, Balleium.
The church of Basly offers only its Romanesque tower placed at the western end of the nave. The door of this tower, the main entrance of the church, has no transoms; it is decorated with tores extending continuously from the base to the summit. Above the first order, the tower is decorated with two rows superimposed by arcatures; one short and without columns, the other elongated with columns with Romanesque capitals. The four-sided pyramid that crowns the whole was rebuilt later in large part; the centre only can be ancient.
The vestibule that exists under the tower is vaulted; the vault is fortified by cross arches with semicircular arches.
The nave and the choir have been taken up as a sub-work; moreover, they offer so few characters that it would be difficult to indicate their age.
The epitaph of a parish priest named Vrard, who died on January 24, 1815, aged 74, who had been parish priest for 39 years, is read externally on the bedside wall.
The church of Basly is under the invocation of St. George; the Hôtel-Dieu of Caen had its patronage; the parish priest received half the tithe; the other half belonged to the chapter of the cathedral and to the abbey of Saint Wandrille since the year 1024, by a gift from Duke Richard II.
Source: Monumental statistics of Calvados by Arcisse de Caumont.