Guided tour of Notre Dame Church

Name: Guided tour of Notre Dame Church
Start: 2023-09-16T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T16:15:00+02:00
Location: Église de Notre-Dame

Open all year round and visitable freely with the help of a digital visit medium. The European Heritage Days are an opportunity to be told about the church during a World Heritage...

Saturday 16 September 2023, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Takes place partly outside, forecast according to the weather.

ASES- Annie Drieu

Open all year round and visitable freely with the help of a digital visit medium. The European Heritage Days are an opportunity to be told about the church during a guided tour organized by the association for the preservation of the church of Savigny. History, explanations and anecdotes on this emblematic site of the Romanesque heritage of Coutançais.

About the location

Église de Notre-Dame

Route du manoir, 50210 Savigny

Manche
Normandie

The church of Savigny, located in Coutançais, is known for its rich Romanesque decoration - modillons, bas-relief of Christ in majesty, historiated arcades and its 14th-century mural paintings - cycle of Saint Beard inscribed in the arcades and surprising Last Supper with thirteen characters. Some of its elements are classified as historical monuments, the church itself appears in its entirety in the additional inventory.
The church is visited but is also told, from its elevation at the beginning of the twelfth century to the rediscovery at the end of the nineteenth century of the hidden treasures it contained, from the quarrels of the nobles of the parish to the explorations of Abbé Joubin, his curious parish priest. The guided tour is led by Agnès Lemesle, historian of the Association pour la Sauvegarde de l'Église de Savigny.