Église Notre-Dame de Cuverville

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Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church in Cuverville is a Catholic church located in Cuverville, France.

Location: The church is located in the French department of Calvados, in the commune of Cuverville.

History: The building dates from the twelfth to the sixteenth. The term Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs evokes the cult of the Mater dolorosa. The nave is Romanesque. One of the facades of the building, the one on the north side, features murderers and modillons. The south wall of the nave was redone in the seventeenth century. The choir is novel according to Arcisse de Caumont but modified because enlarged in the 15th – 16th centuries. The tower is according to Arcisse de Caumont dated 13th – 14th centuries and unfinished according to the same. A chapel was added in the 15th – 16th centuries to serve as a burial place for the Lords of Cuverville. The patronage of the church belonged to the convent of Charity of Caen in the 18th century according to Arcisse de Caumont. The building was listed as historic monuments on 13 April 1933.

Description: The church had numerous tombstones and a 17th century inscription erased during the French Revolution.