Eglise Notre-Dame

Cultural Heritage, 

EVRECY

Eglise-Evrecy
Mairie Evrecy

(XII-XIXth)

Evrecy was in the distant past an important religious centre. In the 7th century there was a monastery in Evrecy which enjoyed great fame. At that time, the land on which this religious edifice was built belonged to the bishopric of Bayeux. On the ruins of the monastery, destroyed by the Vikings, a parish church was built in the 13th century which depends on the Mont-Saint-Michel.
To the north, two arcades surmounted by a bell tower are the remains of the two chapels adjoining on either side of the choir in the 15th century. The church was restored during the Second Empire. Mutilated during the confrontations of 1944, it was rebuilt after 1950 in accordance with the old plan of the building: a bell-tower-porch opens onto a six-bay nave extended by a long rectangular choir. Only one unscathed arch is now classified as a historic monument.