Located in downtown Caen, the Church of St. John is a religious building of the fifteenth century, rebuilt on the remains of a Romanesque church of the twelfth century and classified historic monument.
saltpeter deposit in the Revolution, the church finds its cultic use in the early nineteenth century but is seen partially destroyed in 1944 during the bombing. Restored and consolidated, it reopens again to the faithful in the mid 1960s, still revealing a gate, a bell tower and nave of the fifteenth century, and an apse and a choir sixteenth.
The St. John's Church has the distinction of having been built on marshy soil completely unstable so that the bell tower is now leaning and has never been completed. It is nonetheless one of the architectural jewels of Caen with her outside of Gothic style and its incredible stone lace inside. Visitors will also leave seduced by the statues wooden polychrome of St. Norbert and St. Augustine today classified historic monument as an object.