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Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-du-Mont church, located in Calvados in Normandy, is a religious building built in the 12th century. His choir, dated from the 13th century by Arcisse de Caumont, and his nave of Romanesque inspiration, probably completed in the late 11th or early 12th century, illustrate a marked architectural evolution. The west gate, added in the 14th or 15th centuries, bears witness to subsequent changes. The building, a communal property, has been listed as historic monuments since 1953, highlighting its heritage importance.

Arcisse de Caumont, in his monumental Statistique du Calvados (1857), specifies that the local seigneur held the patronage of the cure, a right linked to the appointment of the parish servant. He also noted that the parish was later attached to that of Cricqueville, reflecting ecclesiastical or demographic reorganizations. The nave walls, adorned with an opus spicatum (fish edge apparatus), small openings and carved modillons, as well as a door in the middle of the hanger on the south side, characterize its original Romanesque style.

The inscription for historical monuments, effective May 30, 1953, protects the entire church, including its medieval elements and its later additions. Although the nave is sometimes referred to as "modern" by Caumont, this name remains ambiguous and could refer to undated changes. The monument, always open to worship, today embodies a preserved Norman religious and architectural heritage.

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