Kairon / Queron / Quéron

INFORMATION

FontID: 21976KAI

Church/Chapel: Eglise Paroissiale Saint-Laurent [originally Chapelle Notre-Dame du Monastère]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: rue Saint-Laurent, 50380 Saint Pair sur Mer, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Hamlet located near Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, and in its municipality, off the D911, 4 km SSE of Granville, on the coast, half-way between Avranches in the S and Coutances in the N

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches

Historical Region: Avranches, Basse Normandie

Church Notes: originally a chapel, Notre-Dame du Monastère, dependent from Mont-Saint-Michel; the original chapel disappeared and the oratory became the new church of Kairon

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[NB: the old chapel of ease disappeared and was repllaced by the monks' former oratory and convalescence home, later turned into the present church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.79, -1.55