THOMAS-BECKET SQUARE
A square located near "La Plate-Forme" in Avranches, offering a marvellous panorama of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
Close to the gardens of the sub-prefecture is what is known as "the platform". It corresponds to the site of St Andrew’s Cathedral built in the 11th and 12th centuries and destroyed in a single night in the revolutionary year 1794. On a slab, engraved with a chalice, we can read this inscription: "On this stone, here at the door of the cathedral of Avranches, after the murder of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry II, King of England and Duke of Normandy received on his knees from the Pope’s legates the Apostolic Absolution on Sunday, May XXI MCLXXII". Renovation work on this pretty square materialises the location of this former cathedral and gives us an idea of its dimensions. The panorama here is marvellous over the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.
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