Fécamp

Fécamp, a manufacturing town and seaport in the French department of Seine-Inférieure, is situated in a narrow valley, flanked on either side by steep cliffs, at the mouth of a little stream, 28 miles NNE. of Havre by rail. The great benedictine abbey church (c. 1220) in the Early Pointed style, rich in painted glass, monuments, and carved woodwork, was burnt in 1892, and rebuilt and consecrated in 1895. At Fécamp the benedictine liqueur, formerly made by the monks, is still produced in large quantities in a factory. The new harbour, opened in 1892, is frequented by colliers from Newcastle and Sunderland, by Baltic timber-ships, and by fishing-vessels. Fécamp has cotton-mills, sugar-refineries, tanneries, shipbuilding-yards, and some linen-cloth and hardware manufactures. Pop. (1872) 12,651; (1891) 12,835.