Varengeville-sur-Mer

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Coordinates: 49°54′22″N 0°59′42″E / 49.906, 0.995

Administration
Commune of Varengeville-sur-Mer
Location

Country	France
Region	Haute-Normandie
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Offranville
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération de la Région dieppoise
Mayor	Christian Blanckaert (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–102 m (avg. 90 m)
Land area^¹	10,75 km²
Population^² (1999)	1179
- Density	109/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	76720/ 76119
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Varengeville-sur-Mer is a coastal town and commune of the Seine-Maritime department of northern France. Claude Monet once painted the coastline of the town.

The church is on the cliffs and at risk of falling into the sea if there were to be a major cliff fall. The churchyard holds the tomb of the Cubist artist Georges Braque, topped by a mosaic of a white dove. Inside the church is a stained glass window by Braque depicting the Tree of Jesse. There are further stained glass windows by Braque in a small chapel on the road from Varengeville to Dieppe.

Near the church, the Bois des Moutiers house was built for Guillaume Mallet from 1898. It was one of the architect Edwin Lutyens' first commissions. A Burne-Jones tapestry hangs in the stairwell, its designs copied from Renaissance cloth in William Morris's studio. The house is open to visitors, as are the gardens, designed by Mallet in conjunction with Gertrude Jekyll.

Outside the village and also open to visitors is the Manoir d'Ango, a manor house owned by the 16th century Dieppe shipbuilder Jean Ango.