From Caen we drove on, seemingly churched-out, to the little village of Fontaine-Henry, between Caen and Bayeux, to see a noted Gothic/Renaissance chateau. The chateau didn't open until 2:30, and so, naturally, I wandered over to the very old-looking parish church nearby...
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Consecrated in the 12th century, with an add-on that pretty much matched |
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Everything Romanesque here, except the arch that divides the
original building from the add-on |
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Nicely carved, more in the choir |
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The add-on; still very Romanesque |
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The capitals were nicely sculpted, especially for this size church |
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Then things started getting silly |
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Thus |
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And thus |
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But then serious again over the side doors |
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Ditto |
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But then more weird stuff |
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Ditto; so I am wondering if these are some sort of 12th century speech balloons... |
1 comment:
So glad you stopped by one more interesting church.
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