Église Notre-Dame-du-Cap-Lihou, Gothic parish church in Granville, France

The Église Notre-Dame-du-Cap-Lihou is a Flamboyant Gothic church built of light brown stone, with a long nave under a dark grey pitched roof. A square tower with a shorter stone turret stands at the left end, while a taller tower with a clock face rises behind the roofline, topped by a steep, slender spire. The main facade has rounded-arched windows and a central arched doorway flanked by columns.

English forces began building the church in 1440 while raising the walls of the Haute Ville, bringing granite from the Chausey islands by barge. The bell tower and the bays between transept and choir date from this campaign, attributed to sir Thomas Scales in 1430-1440. The choir followed from 1628 to 1641, the nave was raised between 1643 and 1655, and the west facade was added in 1767.

The chapel Notre-Dame holds a 15th-century Virgin in Caen limestone, the figure linked to the sailors' 1113 find. The chapel Saint-Clément, lit by stained glass of Saint Eloi by R. Guibourge, keeps a statue of that patron of sailors and of the parish. The church also preserves 17th-century baptismal fonts.

The church stands in the upper town of Granville, above the harbour, and is reached on foot through the old streets of the Haute Ville. It remains an active parish church, so visits are best timed outside mass and other services. Several tombstones of Granville families lie in the floor, and the 17th-century organ with its carved case stands on the tribune.

The organ, built between 1660 and 1668 by Cherbourg maker Robert Ingoult, has about 2,500 pipes and 34 stops on three keyboards; its console dates from 1899. The buffet and tribune balustrade were listed as objects in 1981, the instrumental part in 1989.