Attractions and Places To See around Villeau - Top 6

The Church of Saint-Hilaire in Montainville is a religious monument located in the commune of Les Villages Vovéens. This place of worship, whose construction period is not specified in available sources, is an integral part of the local architectural landscape. Its name, Saint-Hilaire, suggests a dedication to a Christian saint, a common practice for medieval and modern churches, but no further information allows us to determine its exact origin or historical specifics. In the Centre-Val de Loire region, parish churches like Saint-Hilaire played a central role in community life, serving as places of prayer, gatherings, and social organization. Lacking precise data on this monument, it can be assumed that it fulfilled the traditional functions of rural religious buildings: celebrating religious services, administering the sacraments, and maintaining connections among the inhabitants. The dominant agricultural activities of the region often influenced the maintenance and use of these places, although it is not possible to assert a direct link with this particular church.

This church in Meslay-Le-Vidame, whose architecture reflects the formal language of antiquity, was dedicated to the patron saint of Saint Etienne. He was one of the first seven deacons of the original Jerusalem church and, according to the biblical accounts in the New Testament, the first martyr (martyr) of early Christianity. The church commemorates his death on Boxing Day, December 26th. As the Acts of the Apostles recounts: When Stephen recounted his vision of the open heavens, "And he, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God" (Chapter 7, Verse 55), the people were so outraged that they drove him out of the city and stoned him.

Formerly, the church was the presentation of the abbot of Bonneval because the Saint-Florentin abbey had a priory in Cormainville. A walled arcade, still visible to the south of the choir, represents an ancient communication between the church and the priory. The building was registered as a historic monument in 1927.

The Cambray orangery is part of the Cambray estate acquired by François Lambert, squire and adviser to the king, auditor in his chamber of accounts, on March 28, 1575 from the nobleman of Oinville, lord of Puiset. The place called Cambray, Combarius under the Romans, was to be a camp. Combrée also means "bushy places", or Cambray is located along the Conie, bordered by reedbeds. The 2 wings of the rear facade were built at the end of the 17th century, beginning of the 18th century by Jacques Lambert, private master of water and forests of the Duchy of Orléans. We note that they were built after the other parts of the castle, with a different aspect of construction, stone on the one hand and bricks around the windows on the other.

indeed, a monument to the dead and an unpretentious church, a story from another era.

This church with the appearance of an ancient temple is a real curiosity that you must visit

CHURCH OF SAINT-BARTHÉLÉMY in Theuville is relatively poorly listed, but it is nonetheless a curiosity not to be missed.

Building created by a "visionary" architect, Nicolas Jacques Antoine Vestier, on the site of an earlier building. The building is preceded by a peristyle supported by six pyramidal pilasters which support a large frieze continuing around the church. The front of the peristyle is surmounted by a pediment containing an archivolt. Behind the chevet, the tower serves as a steeple. The church is, on the outside, built on a rectangular plan. Inside, the apse ends in a circular section vaulted in a dome. The ornamentation of the church is represented by the furniture, in harmony with the construction. Towards the end of the 19th century, the interior surfaces were coated with a decal.