L'EGLISE DE SAINT-SAUVEUR

This Romanesque church, built of grey granite and overlooking St-Sauveur, the island's former capital, is one of the many religious buildings to emerge from the great spiritual movement that followed the year 1000. Built on the foundations of a previous sanctuary, it was originally a priory, then a parish church. It appears for the 1st time in a charter dated 1040.
Its bell tower, once topped by a tall, tapering spire, was topped in the 13th century by a truncated pyramid tower 17 metres high, which for a long time served as a navigational beacon. In November 1953, lightning set fire to it.
The current neo-Gothic nave was built in 1857 on the ruins of the dilapidated Romanesque nave.

Masses
July to September
Sundays at 9am.