Free visit of the abbey church

Name: Free visit of the abbey church
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Eglise St Sauveur

Open House (outside ceremonies)

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entrance (subject to ceremonies)

©Jacques Basile

The abbey church of Montivilliers is based on the model of the great Norman Romanesque churches of the 11th century. 70 metres long, it is inspired by the Abbey of the Trinity of Caen with its two façade towers, their construction taking place during the same period. Built for the sole use of the nuns of the abbey, the church of Montivilliers will later serve as both an abbey church and a parish church. Free visit (outside the ceremonies)

About the location

Eglise St Sauveur

Place François Mitterrand, 76290 Montivilliers

Seine-Maritime
Normandie

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