Église Notre-Dame d'Ève

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The Church of Our Lady of Eve is a parish Catholic church located in Eve, France. It is singularized by its four-span dissymmetric façade, which covers one and a half storeys of a Romanesque bell tower in the mid-12th century. The very rich decor with plated pinnacles, arms, fantastic animals and flamboyant networks, as well as the elegant arrow cumulating at 44 m high, date from the first half of the 16th century.

Like the facade already augurs it, the church's plan is also irregular, at least in the first span of the nave, which consists of the base of the bell tower several times redesigned, and a narthex. The rest of the central ship is unusually wide for a small rural church, and ends with a large five-sided apse. The first two spans east of the bell tower represent the Gothic choir of the second quarter of the 13th century, whose architecture is of high quality.

The adjacent spans of the north side date from the same period. The nave was to the west of the bell tower before it was destroyed during the Hundred Years' War. Instead of rebuilding it to its primitive location, it was decided, in the sixteenth century, to transform the choir...