Chapelle des Marins

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The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel in Gatteville-le-Phare or commonly the Marins chapel is a Catholic building located in the French commune of Gatteville-le-Phare in the Manche department in the Normandy region. The building is listed as historical monuments.

Location: Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel is located next to Saint-Pierre de Gatteville-le-Phare parish church in the French department of La Manche.

History: The chapel, the primitive church of Gatteville, was built in the 11th century probably on an earlier building of the French era, as suggested by the discovery, in 1968, to the north of the building, of several Merovingian sarcophages of the 6th – 7th centuries. From the middle of the 12th century, the couple of shrines, church and chapel, is attested by a charter, of Hugues d'Amiens, archbishop of Rouen (1129-1164), for the benefit of Abbé Gauthier I, confirming the possessions of the Abbey of Montebourg, in which is mentioned the church with the chapel and all its revenues (ecclesiam de Gateuilla cum capella and omnibus pertinenciis). From the early church remains the choir of the...