Attractions and Places To See around La Chapelle-Vicomtesse - Top 15

This church contains 14th century wall paintings. These paintings were discovered in 1895. They formerly occupied the entire width of the western wall of the nave. The central part was destroyed following the renovation of the door. The left side represented paradise. Of the bust of Christ, in a trilobed medallion, which occupied the center, there remains only a fragment of the cruciform halo. The rest of the composition is divided into rectangular compartments, each enclosing, in the surviving part, a figure of a crowned chosen one. On the right, hell is represented by a cauldron in which several characters are immersed, including a pope, a bishop, a monk, a king, a queen. Above, a woman with her legs apart. On the right, an enormous horned demon sticks out its tongue. On the left, another carries a basket filled with the damned and is about to plunge a woman into the cauldron. Construction periods: 14th century

The Langey church, built under the name of Saint Pierre, dates back to the 11th century. This rectangular building, without side aisles, 32m50 long and 8m80 wide, is finished on the west side by a gable with sloped cut stones, pierced by two pretty Romanesque windows, and on the east side by a semi-circular apse. Inside, it houses two polychrome wooden statues representing a 17th century bishop and Saint James. The octagonal bell tower, straddling the roof, is a frame resting on six posts and covered with slates. Its spire is certainly the most beautiful and highest in the region. The bell was cast on site, in the village itself in 1811.

The church has a very pretty Renaissance-style choir entrance. Certain stained glass windows, the woodwork of the choir, the altarpieces and the font are classified. The current church, rectangular in plan, replaced a 12th century building. The flat bedside and the north wall, equipped with Romanesque windows and slightly projecting buttresses, date from this period. It was rebuilt and probably enlarged in the first half of the 16th century. It was then covered with beautiful paneling, the beams of which bear the arms of the Vove, lords of Saint-Agil. The church is also flanked to the south by a seignorial chapel of two bays opening onto the nave with two molded semi-circular arches: its ribbed vaults, with eight ribs leading to the four peaks of a central diamond, are each decorated with four sculpted pendant keys, one of which also bears the arms of the Vove; the date 1547 can be read on its door. The church is currently preceded by a bell tower built in 1886 by Mr. Travaillard, an architect in Saint-Calais. A window to the south of the choir has preserved a partly restored 16th century stained glass window, representing Saint-Agil and Saint-Fiacre, and one of the windows of the seigneurial chapel has another, representing the Nativity, the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi; the other window of this chapel has a modern stained glass window retaining some old fragments in the speckles. The choir was decorated with woodwork including an entrance arcade surmounted by a crucifix, stalls, a communion table and an altarpiece, the latter dated 1734. We can also point out a font decorated with balusters and of a skull (1552), the poetic epitaph of Catherine-Geneviève de Verthamont (1740), a painting representing a martyr (17th century), a Louis XV console and a Venetian glass chandelier.”

Around 1240, the Benedictines, who had a priory within the walls of the castle of Mondoubleau, having had to abandon it, settled near Choue. Of the buildings, only the chapel remains. The western gable is pierced with a double archivolt door in third point and projecting cord, chamfered. Above, a bay was flanked by two six-lobed oculi. On the western part of the southern gutter wall, a door gave access to a small room which could have been the lower room of a square tower, perhaps a bell tower. Inside, the walls were plastered.

The house of La Rochefoucauld is one of the oldest families of the French nobility. In 1863, the Duke of La Rochefoucauld undertook the construction of a magnificent castle in the middle of the forest of Gaudinière. The castle was bought in the early 1920s by a wealthy Armenian merchant from New York, who wanted to organize a reception center for orphans from Armenia. Chance made that this castle was chosen, and transformed to accommodate a hundred children. After long and expensive development work, the center worked in good harmony with the surroundings, including the village of Ville aux Clercs. The estate created its own resources and even provided a profession for the accommodated teenagers. The castle experienced several fire alerts at the end of the 1920s. On Saturday November 17, 1934, around 9:30 am, an employee of the estate saw smoke emanating from the roof on the northeast side. Firefighters from neighboring towns rushed to the scene. They could not contain the fire, but a lot of furniture, and objects were saved from the disaster. The investigation concluded that there was a short circuit in the attic. The residents were housed in the redeveloped outbuildings, but their situation could not last like this. The New York patron, after two years of study and reflection, preferred to shift his efforts to the Armenian communities in Greece, and more recently in 1991 in Syria and Lebanon. The domain was then sold for a few thousand Francs between the years 1937 and 1938. It is a company, a subsidiary of the "Mines de Lens" in the north of France which bought the entire domain to reforest it, in order to s '' supply mine poles. The ruins were then demolished, dispersed, even looted.