Ménil-Gondouin
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Ménil-Gondouin (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Coconière, La Haute Bruyèreand Ménil-Gondouin.[2]
The commune is part of area known as Suisse Normande.[3]
Menil-Gondouin only has one watercourse running through it, the Ruisseau de Vienne.
Notable buildings and places
The living and talking church of Ménil-Gondouin
Saint-Vigor du Ménil-Gondouin church is a nineteenth century church that has been covered in statues and dozens of inscriptions by a single person, the parish priest Victor Paysant (1841-1921).[4]
The church contains the head of a statue, of the Crowned Virgin, that is dating back to the 14th/15th Century and was listed as a Monument historique in 1984.[5]
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One of the statues of the Church
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Churches Pulpit
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Victor Paysant
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National heritage sites
The Commune has 2 other buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique[3]
- Domain of the Court a set of remains of an old 16th century Chateau that belonged to Antoine de Turgot, that was listed as a Monument historique in 1983.[6]
- Logis Saint-Honorine an 18th Century chateau with outbuildings dating back to the 15th century, listed as Monument Historique in 1975[7]
See also
References
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