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Chapelle Saint-Dominique de Varengeville-sur-Mer en Seine-Maritime

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine religieux
Chapelle
Seine-Maritime

Chapelle Saint-Dominique de Varengeville-sur-Mer

    C.D. 75
    76119 Varengeville-sur-Mer
Chapelle Saint-Dominique de Varengeville-sur-Mer
Chapelle Saint-Dominique de Varengeville-sur-Mer

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1942
Destruction of the wooden building
1953
Conversion of the barn into a chapel
1954
Creation of stained glass by Braque
22 juillet 1996
Registration for historical monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Façades and roofs of the chapel, including the porch and sacristy (Box AH 219): inscription by order of 22 July 1996

Key figures

Georges Braque - Painter and creator of stained glass Designed seven stained glass windows in 1954.
Paul Bony - Craft glassware Made the stained glass windows designed by Braque.
Curé de Varengeville - Owner of the transformation Started conversion in 1953.

Origin and history

The Saint-Dominique Chapel of Varengeville-sur-Mer is a former 18th-century barn converted into a place of Catholic worship in 1953. This conversion was intended to replace a wooden building destroyed during the 1942 Canadian raid, marking a post-Second World War reconstruction in the area.

The building, which has been listed as a historic monument since 22 July 1996, is distinguished by its sober, single-ship architecture. It is home to seven figurative stained glass windows designed by Georges Braque in 1954, as well as a stained glass window from the Tree of Jesse, made in collaboration with the glassmaker Paul Bony. These artistic works give the chapel a major heritage and cultural dimension.

Located on the Dieppe road, the chapel depends on the Seine-Maritime department (region Normandy). Its protection concerns facades, roofs, porch and sacristy. Owned by a cult association, it illustrates the alliance between religious heritage, historical memory and modern artistic creation.

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