Valognes (canton of Valognes, Manche) Church Notre-Dame-d'Alleaume

    The church of Notre-Dame d’Alleaume was built on a site where the remains of the Gallo-Roman town of Alauna have been found. The edifice which was altered in the 13^th, and 15^th centuries (enlargements) and in the 18^th century (re-working) retains some elements of the 12^th century (porch in the south wall of the choir, door in the south wall of the nave). The lintel of a door in the south wing of the transept shows an older bas-relief (mid 11^th century?). It shows two saints under arches (Peter and John?), a down bearing an olive branch and the mystic lamb, an image of Christ. It has not been possible to attribute this rather archaic work to any sculptor of the Romanesque period in the Cotentin region.

Bibliography

- Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie, Congrès de Valognes, 1967, p. 26
- Bernard Beck. - Quand les Normands bâtissaient les églises, Coutances, OCEP, p. 108, 111, 162
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- Since, Marie-Hélène. " Valognes ", dans Art roman dans l’est du Cotentin, Art de Basse-Normandie, n° 68, p. 26