Varengeville-sur-Mer

Infobox Commune de France|nomcommune=Varengeville-sur-Mer
région=Haute-Normandie
département=Seine-Maritime
arrondissement=Dieppe
canton=Offranville
insee=76720
cp=76119
maire= Christian Blanckaert
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de la Région dieppoise
longitude=0.995
latitude=49.906
alt moy=90 m
alt mini=0 m
alt maxi=102 m
hectares=1 075
km²=10,75
sans=1179
date-sans=1999
dens=109|

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.

ee also

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

ources

* [http://www.france-for-visitors.com/normandy/seine-maritime/varengeville.html Tourist website description of Varengeville]
* [http://www.maisonbeaurevoir.eu/e/the_region_2.htm Tourism in Varengeville-sur-Mer and the region: the Alabaster Coast]