Saint-Jean-de-Livet (Canton of Lisieux, Calvados) Church of Saint-Jean

   The church of Saint-Jean-de-Livet is a typical example of a modest edifice from the first half of the 11^th century, with a single nave extended by a flat chevet choir, and with no sculpted decor. Subsequently it received a tower rising above the east façade and a porch protecting the Romanesque portal of the south wall of the nave. The wall bonding presents small rubble stones arranged very regularly, as in the constructions of antiquity, and fish bone patterns. In the upper part of the chevet wall, small triangular openings remain in the tradition of the early middle ages. Another example of this system of openings can be seen at Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue.

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