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Eglise Saint-Côme et Saint-Damien

CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS
– School Street

Presentation

The priory of Saint-Côme, founded towards the end of the 1066th century, is the only dependency of the abbey of Cluny in Manche. It served as a stopover for monks going to visit their possessions across the Channel received after XNUMX.
The church is composed of a nave with three aisles, a projecting transept, a two-bay choir flanked to the north by a sacristy, to the south by a chapel with two bays and at its end by a semi-circular bedside and an apse.
Romanesque parts: western facade, the tympanum of the south transept door, the north wall of the choir, the apse and the nave with large semi-circular arches with an unmolded double scroll resting on cruciform pillars and very splayed high windows.
Furniture: 16th century baptismal font.
Church and cemetery classified as a historic monument since 1946

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