Church of Saint-Pierre - Le Mont-Saint-Michel
Rock-backed parish church whose choir arches over a lane, home to a silver-clad archangel.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of Saint-Pierre on Mont-Saint-Michel is about building where there is no room to build: a small parish church squeezed onto a crowded rock, and the sixteenth-century masons who needed to make it bigger. It also turns to the chapel of the archangel, the sculptor who worked alongside Viollet-le-Duc, and the pilgrims who came in their thousands in the eighteen seventies. Walk around the outside before you step in.
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