Arques la Bataille is a snall village in Normandy just outside the port of Dieppe. It is known in the history of France mostly because of the battle in which king Henry VI defeated his opponents and definitely ended the religious wars. It is now a small village but it must have been quite affluent at one time, judging on the scale its parish church was being rebuilt. The original church was Romanesque and the main part still is. During the Gothic era it was apparently decided that the church would be in the new style on a much larger scale. The choir and one tower were built anew. Later the funds apparently dried out and the church now stands half done - very much like the Cologne Cathedral stood for many centuries. It has also some epitaphs with fine Gothic and Renaissance calligraphy. I find especially interesting the proportions of the Renaissance antiqua script informing about some foundation of M. Antoinebedieu.
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