Gréville-La Hague

Gréville-La Hague , a common of the department of the Handle, in the area Basse-Normandie, in France.

Its inhabitants is called the Grévillais .

Places and monuments

the church : This monument is very interesting from the architectural point of view in spite of or because of the multiple transformations during the eight centuries of its history.

The primitive building consisted of a principal vessel flanked of collateral on the northern side.

The arcades of the nave and the chorus are carried by square piles of a notable interest and a very rare type, confined with the angles of posts with Chapiteau X which announced the end of the Romanesque art.

In 1774, one prolonged the nave of a span where currently the baptismal font is. the collateral wall was remade. It is at that time also that all the great nave was covered with a vault on intersecting ribs.

the bell-tower such as it is currently presented in was built of except work in 1554 as the blazon external “of Pierre Heuzey testifies some”. The ground floor arranged in vault comprises west coast broad a Enfeu which would have sheltered until the Révolution, the twelve apostles: only one of these statues would have resisted, that of Saint Pierre placed currently outside above the gate. It is in this vault that were placed the famous statues put at the day in 1993 and constituting a " Setting with the tomb of Christ". The warheads of the vault with central hole of bells fall down in the angles on carved bases: knight, young man, horse, old man. The lintel of the swimming pool but also that of the door of the staircase of the bell-tower are decorated of an accodance and are surmounted blazon of Heuzey of azure to the boot with the beuziau of sand éperonnée of gold .

the vault being next to that described above was also built at the 16th century, it comprises a vault whose warheads rest on bottoms of lamps to the symbol of the four evangelists: lion and northern eagle side, angel and ox southern part. It communicates with the chorus by two arcades; the cylindrical central column is without capital.

The construction of the vault decided in 1568 was delayed by a conflict between Robert the Middle-class man, owner of the stronghold of Gruchy, the priest Pierre Heuzey and the promoters, Jacques Dumoncel, brother-in-law of Gilles de Gouberville, and his wife.

On the other side of the chorus, a vault in apse with three sides directed towards north came to open in the last span of collateral during the 17th century. This vault is called “Saint-Jacob vault of the Valley Ferrand”

Vis-a-vis the vault of the bell-tower, and creating with it a false transept, a vault without character was probably carried out towards second half of the 18th century.

Manor house Vendon : Rock solid mass, painted by Millet and element of the fortress of Cherbourg installation by the Germans.

the Native house Jean-François Millet , restored today, evokes the childhood and the training of the young painter at the beginning of the XIXe century.

Administration

Events

Celebrities

External bonds

  • Site of the Town hall of Gréville
  • Presentation of Gréville on the site of the community of communes of La Hague

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