Church of Our Lady, Dives-sur-Mer

Notre-Dame Church is a Catholic church located in Dives-sur-Mer, in the French department of Calvados in the Normandy region. It was the site of an important pilgrimage that lasted mainly until the Wars of Religion and the destruction of an object subject to the devotion of the faithful, a Christ Saint-Sauveur found according to tradition in the eleventh century by fishermen; the pilgrimage resumed then until the French Revolution.

If the current building preserves elements dating from the 11th century and has undergone severe depredations over the centuries, it is in relatively good condition due to successive restoration campaigns, the last of which dates from the beginning of the 21st century. It is "the most remarkable monument of Dives" according to Arcisse de Caumont. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1888. A certain number of movable elements are registered.

The church has preserved few old stained glass windows, even if, at the end of the 20th century, a 14th century stained glass panel was found and bought by the commune with the help of the State. The building also preserves remarkable marine graffiti on its walls, dated from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century: the corpus of graffiti, exceptional because the number of these is greater than 400, allows the study of both marine and river vessels and also of many aspects, including religious, of the life of the community present in the commune over more than five centuries.