Eglise St Sauveur
Place François Mitterrand, 76290 Montivilliers
The original plan of the church, of type «benedictine», was that of the great Romanesque churches of Normandy. It was modified in the fifteenth century. At the crossroads, the Romanesque church has preserved a monumental bell tower from the end of the eleventh century. A vault is built twelfth century masked by a second built in the seventeenth century. The arms of the transept are covered with beautiful arched arches of archaic style, separated by a band decorated with broken sticks. The Choir, deep of three bays and very modified in the seventeenth century, still reveals its primitive Romanesque structure, especially in the high columns that marked the departure of the apse The most recent part of the Romanesque church, the façade dates from the first half of the 12th century. It had to include in its primitive state two towers, as at the churches of Jumièges or Boscherville. Only that of the north has survived. Above the Romanesque portal was pierced in the fourteenth century a larg
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Monument historique, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Édifice religieux
ville de Montivilliers
