⛪ Chapelle Notre-Dame de Grâce
Clifftop chapel overlooking Honfleur, Normandy
📌 Fast Facts
- Built 1600–1615 by Honfleur's bourgeois and sailors
- Stands on the site of an earlier chapel lost to landslide
- Original chapel founded before 1023 by Richard II, Duke of Normandy
- Perched on the cliffs above Honfleur harbour
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Grâce is a Baroque-era chapel constructed between 1600 and 1615 by the merchant class and maritime community of Honfleur. It occupies the site of a much older chapel that was destroyed by a cliff collapse. The chapel's origins date to before 1023, when Richard II, Duke of Normandy, commissioned it following a vow made during a perilous storm at sea ...