Most Bizarre Church Ever, So Far: Saint-Sauveur In Caen

We have seen some double nave churches. Usually they are in poorer areas where expansion was needed or maybe the result of zoning restrictions or church squabbles about land ownership, as between an abbey and a bishop (or a pope). But St. Sauveur has got to take the cake, and the pie and the ice cream, in this category. A 19th century historian, Eugene de Beaurepaire wrote: "Saint-Sauveur church is the most unbelievable, incoherent, extraordinary combination of buildings from the periods, including the 14th, 15th, and 16th  centuries." That, actually, is charitable. It's not simply about piling Renaissance on top of Gothic on top of Romanesque styles. This church is obviously the work of three centuries of committees.

On a side street, Rue Froide, you look up and
there is this enormous tower

Way bigger than needed for what what is perhaps
a chapel

But wait, it looks like the tower belongs to a Gothic church, but
there is maybe an Romanesque church parked next door; but
Romanesque churches don't have windows like that...

Inside, it only gets worse, a rounded (window) church on the
left, a pointy (window) church on the right; two altars (actually
more)

Looking from the pointy church over to the rounded church
(under an enormous Gothic arch we'll see in a bit)

From the rounded bow looking astern...the giant tower rises
from the arches on the left

The pointy nave, from the bow

The pointy bow

The two sterns, pointy on left, with the circular window (!);
tiny organ on the rounded side with the pointy (!) window

Rounded nave, astern, looking toward with the giant pointy arch
(52 feet) separating the two naves

Timber barrel vaulting throughout; pretty incredible