SAINT SULPICE CHURCH

This church, donated in the middle of the 11th century by William Son Osbern, one of the main collaborators of William the Conqueror, to his abbey in Lyre, was preceded by a wooden building, whose reconstruction in mortar and stone around 1015-1025 is mentioned. Only the skeleton of the cross nave and the transept (the side aisles of the choir have disappeared) and, above all, the square, stocky central tower, which seems to date back to the second half of the 11th century, remain from the Romanesque period. It offers the same construction method as the last bay of the nave. The rest was probably built after the fire of 1138 that ravaged the church. In this region, which is poor in good stone, an ungrateful material was used, characteristic of this sector of Normandy, Grison (a kind of ferruginous sandstone), whose use explains, among other things, the simplicity of the capitals of the fitted cylindrical pillars of the nave, replaced by simple square shelves. You will be able to admire an organ case dating from the 16th century, as well as a polychrome and historiated wooden frame. In the 11th century, the building hosted the marriage of Adele, daughter of William the Conqueror, to the Count of Blois.