Dinan's Basilica Saint-Sauveur

Friends and relatives will be glad to know we do go to church nearly every day in Europe, sometimes several churches. In Dinan we looked in at a former convent and a newer (non-Medieval) parish church. But the one that really got our attention was the Basilica Saint-Sauveur, another of those wonders where Romanesque is on the south side and Gothic is on north; or vice versa. With some exceptions and other items of interest.

Nice Romanesque porch...

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South side, Romanesque, where maybe something got started
but not finished, or started and blocked off...

North side...actually just an aisle, but a big architectural statement

Knave view

Elevation, sort of

Chancel

Not entirely clear what happened here, but the
red line through the bottom image is a bit disturbing

This is how they clean the high windows in a
parish church like this; I wonder what they use
at Amiens...a helicopter...maybe a Holy Drone?

The windows at this church are all modern; but
 we liked them: they told the relevant Biblical
stories and not some artsy-fartsy abstractions

And they threw some great light

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There were also some fearsome gargoyles

And a funny face or two

Another interesting old church