Church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
The Church of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul is located in Mainneville, Normandy, in the department of Eure. The church, built according to a Latin cross plan, has a Romanesque nave dating from the 12th century. The transept and the choir were rebuilt in the 16th century. You can see two statues from the 14th century, the funerary slab of Guillelmi (14th century) and a wooden statue of Saint Nicolas (17th century).
About this building
The parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul is located in Mainneville, in Normandy, in the department of Eure. The church is oriented and built according to a Latin cross plan, terminated by a polygonal chevet. The nave of two spans was built in the Romanesque the twelfth century. Its bays were pierced in 1858. The salient transept (shouldering eight foothills angles) and the choir, of two spans, were entirely rebuilt in the sixteenth century. Two chapels open onto the arms of transepts. The north chapel is called Saint Louis and it houses two exceptional statues from the fourteenth century, including a statue of Saint Louis that comes from the castle of Enguerrand de Marigny. The south chapel is currently assigned to the sacristy. The façade is pierced by two bays above a semicircular portal (1701).
The bell tower, built to a square plan, is located on the ridge of the roof of the south arm of the transept. It is covered with a polygonal roof topped by a ridge cross and a wind vane. The vaults of the nave, chapels, choir and transepts were originally made of wood but all the vaults were redone in plaster during the restoration work carried out in the 19th century. The old structures are still visible. The entire building is covered with a double slope roof. The roof of the nave is lower than that of the transept and the choir.
One can also observe objects classified as historical monuments: the funerary slab of Guillelmi of XIVth century, the wooden statue of Saint Nicolas of the XVIIth century and several secondary altars.
