St Firmin church

The church dates back from the 17th century, especially its long nave. It was then the chapel of the neighbouring hall and depended on the parish of Touffreville. It did not become a parish until after the revolution.

Built of sandstone, carved flint and above all bricks in neo-Gothic style, with a neo-renaissance wooden altar, it features an axe-shaped slate roof.

There are the statues of Saint Firmin (invoked against insomnia and epilepsy also called "Saint Firmin evil"), patron of the parish, Saint Denis, decapitated and holding his head, St. Barbe, St Catherine and St Clothilde as well as, in the choir, the wall grave stones of Louis Emmanuel Lucas de Sainte Honorine, knight, honorary adviser to the Parliament of Normandy (1790), Charles Guillaume Leonor Dubosc, Earl of Radepont, former captain of the Cavalry, Knight of the Royal Order of St. Louis (1816) and his wife, Marie Adrienne Hort Lucas of Saint Honorine (1822).

During his visit to the church on October 1, 1714, Bishop Claude Maur d'Aubigné noted that the condition of the church required many repairs, that "all the pavement of the nave is poorly unified, almost all mutilated and to be reworked and straightened, that the roof of the nave is to be repaired, that there are also some repairs to be made to the wood shingle roof of the bell tower , that the structural parts supporting the choir gable line are partly rotten and that the same gable is to be replenished with materials on each side." It was not until 1870 that the architect Georges Simon completely rebuilt the choir and the bell tower.

At this time, a church bell was transferred to the church of Yquebeuf. This bell, melted in 1764 by Antoine Poisson, a renowned founder of Rouen, had been baptized by Father Cosnefroy, priest of the parish of Esteville, and named Marie Françoise Hortense by his Lordship Louis Robert de Saint Victor and noble lady Marie Françoise Hortense Bon.

To the left of the portal, a plaque recalls the memory of Thomas Mascot, parish priest from 1826 to 1829. While he had just confessed a lady Mulot from Cailly, on a day of Lent 1829, on March 19, when returning to his rectory he was struck by sudden death, along the old road from Esteville to Cailly, a few meters from the Bois Grenache. A calvary was built for the first time at the place where his body was found. The cross destroyed by time was restored, and then thrown down again. The place where it was placed took and preserved the name of Croix Mascot (Mr. Hippolyte Lemarchand).

In the churchyard, the graves of l’Abbé Pierre, of his faithful secretary Lucie Coutaz and about twenty of his companions attract many visitors.