Varengeville-sur-Mer

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This article is about Varengeville-sur-Mer in the Seine-Maritime département. For Varangéville in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, see Varangéville.
Varengeville-sur-Mer

Coat of arms
Varengeville-sur-Mer
Coordinates: 49°54′24″N 0°59′44″E / 49.9067°N 0.9956°E / 49.9067; 0.9956Coordinates: 49°54′24″N 0°59′44″E / 49.9067°N 0.9956°E / 49.9067; 0.9956
Country France
Region Upper Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Offranville
Intercommunality Dieppe
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Christian Blanckaert
Area
 • Land1 10.75 km2 (4.15 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Population2 1,113
 • Population2 Density 100/km2 (270/sq mi)
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 without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Varengeville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France.

Geography

A forestry and farming commune situated by the coast of the English Channel and in the Pays de Caux, some 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Dieppe at the junction of the D27, D75 and the D123 roads. The commune has access to the pebble beach by means of a gap in the huge chalk cliffs.

Heraldry

The arms of Varengeville-sur-Mer are blazoned :
Gules, a mullet of 8 argent pierced azure, on a chief argent a lion passant gules.

Population

Historical population of Varengeville-sur-Mer
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population10119869981050104811791113
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

La maison du douanier de Varengeville (Customs officer's house), by Monet, 1882
Jean d'Ango manor
  • The manorhouse known as the Manoir d'Ango, built between 1530-1545 by Jean Ango,
  • The church of St. Valery, dating from the thirteenth century, sits atop the cliffs and is at risk of falling into the sea if the cliff were to collapse in any way. 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.
  • The chapel of St. Dominique, on the road from Varengeville to Dieppe, with more stained glass windows by Braque.
  • Two chateaus, at Saint-Aubin and Quesnot.
  • The sixteenth century hunting lodge of King Francis I.
  • The cemetery, by the sea, with a sixteenth-century sandstone cross and containing the tombs of some famous Frenchmen: the writer Georges de Porto-Riche, composer Albert Roussel, Georges Braque and the architect, Paul Nelson.
  • The Bois des Moutiers which is a 12-hectare park conceived by Guillaume Mallet in 1898, containing a house designed by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and gardens designed by Miss Gertrude Jekyll. The park contains 'Shamrock', the biggest collection of hortensias in the world, with more than 1000 varieties. This collection has been assembled by the ‘Conservatoire français des collections végétales spécialisées’ (CCVS). The park is open to visitors.
  • The ‘Maison du Bois des Moutiers’, near the church, was built for Guillaume Mallet from 1898. It was one of 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.


People

Cemetery
Bois des Moutiers
  • Georges Braque (1883–1963), artist, is buried in the cemetery.
  • Albert Roussel (1869–1937), composer, is buried in the cemetery.
  • Georges de Porto-Riche (1849–1930), writer, is buried in the cemetery.
  • Jean-Francis Auburtin (1866–1930), artist, died here.
  • Paul Nelson (1895–1979), architect, is buried in the cemetery
  • Jean Ango, (1480–1551), shipping magnate and navigator, lived here.
  • Claude Monet (1840–1926), who spent some time painting in Varengeville.

Twinning

The village is twinned with Herstmonceux in East Sussex, in the United Kingdom[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.herstmonceuxparish.org.uk/

External links

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