Falaise Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais, Falaise

This Romanesque church was commissioned by William the Conqueror after his 1066 victory in England and completed by his son Henry I in 1134. The building sits on Place Guillaume le Conquérant in the north of Falaise, linking it directly to the Norman duke's birthplace. Visitors can admire the 12th-century tower-lantern, wooden-vaulted nave, and exceptional carved capitals on the south pillars featuring rare secular rather than religious themes.