SAINT GERMAIN CHURCH
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This building has a nave with three bays flanked by aisles, a transept, a tower at the crossing of the transept...
Today classified as a historic monument, Saint-Germain church was built on a promontory, on the edge of a Roman road, at the end of the 11th century and underwent numerous interventions over the years to modify its morphology. The building has a nave with three bays flanked by aisles, a transept, a tower at the crossroads of the transept, a choir finished by a flat chevet. One of the particularities of this Romanesque church is the presence of 186 sculpted modillions on its façades. Look more closely at the cornices of the nave, the side aisles, the two arms of the transept and the apsidiole, these stone architectural elements used to support a cornice or eaves.
Created in 1827, the cemetery houses the graves of Robert Leblanc, founder and charismatic leader of the Surcouf maquis (an important movement of the Norman Resistance during the Second World War), and Alfred Canel (an illustrious politician, writer and humanist, born in 1803 in Pont-Audemer).