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The Saint-Just-et-Sainte-Anne church of Fresnay-le-Gilmert is a religious monument located in the town of the same name, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. The available data does not specify its period of construction or its architectural evolution, but its existence testifies to a local heritage rooted in the rural landscape. Churches of this type, often at the heart of villages, played a central role in community life. They served as a place of worship, gathering, and identity marker for the inhabitants. In Centre-Val de Loire, as elsewhere in France, these buildings also reflected the religious and social practices of successive eras, although the specific details for Fresnay-le-Gilmert are not documented here.

Of Romanesque origin, the church, surrounded by a cemetery, has a curious bell tower supported by machicolations and uprights of sandstone, making it one of the most unique in the region. Perhaps it was originally a bell gable, later augmented by a platform supported by these machicolations? In front of the entrance, a small building called a "caquetoire" (a small meeting place) allows the faithful to gather and converse. Inside the church, the furnishings date from the 18th and 19th centuries: a marble high altar and its gray-painted wooden altarpiece (18th century) – a painted wooden altarpiece of St. Joseph (late 18th or early 19th century) an altarpiece for the altar of the Virgin Mary (19th century) a baptismal font in red-veined marble (19th century) a waxed wooden pew (18th century) a waxed wooden choir stall upholstered in velvet paintings: the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Octave Hauser (1839) and the Annunciation (18th century) The stained-glass windows date from 1874. The church and the eclipse A bit of history: The parish, established in the 13th century, was part of the deanery of Courville. The church's patron saint, Luperche or Luperchius, gave his name to the village. We must go back to the 4th century to find the first trace of this saint: At that time, Dacius, governor of the part of Spain that included Catalonia, Aragon, and the Kingdom of Valencia, was one of the most cruel ministers of persecution. Incited by the emperors Diocletian and Maximilian, he had eighteen confessors of Jesus Christ executed in the city of Zaragoza. In their honor, the poet Prudentius wrote hymns, and among these confessors, a certain martyr named Luperche became the patron saint of our church.

The parish church of Saint-Remy de Vérigny, located in the current new commune of Mittainvilliers-Vérigny, has been documented in the archives since 1126 as being dependent on the abbey of Saint-Père in Chartres. Its construction probably followed shortly after this date, as evidenced by the use of grison for both the buttresses and the frames of certain bays and the large west portal with a grison roller. The proximity of the manor and then the castle of Vérigny, owned by the prestigious families of O and Vieuville until the early years of the 18th century, encouraged donations and legacies in favor of the parish church. It is to Charles II of O that we owe the construction of the north aisle as well as the family chapel in the right bay of the choir, on the north side. The ribbed vaults and the hanging keystones sculpted with little angels evoke the creations of the second quarter of the 16th century such as those of the church of Bérou-la-Mulotière. If the only vestiges of stained glass windows preserved date from the

It resembles a Romanesque church, its pointed roof in local tiles, its four-sided bell tower is made of slate. The church of Poisvilliers has a nave whose base is from the 12th century, remodeled in the 16th century. The walls are made of various rubble blocks, the buttresses are made of cut stone. The west gable was redone in the 18th century. The date appears on the keystone of the door in the center (MDCCLXX /1770) The paneled vault is a simple vessel, the nave is widened to the south. The choir, narrower than the nave, dates from the 12th century and ends with a semicircular apse. It was transformed in the 16th century into a three-sided apse. The altarpiece is neoclassical in the Louis XVI style. It is made of fir. The pulpit is made of oak. In 1844, the high altar and the bell were repaired. A special tax is required. Thirty taxed forts are summoned. There are two stained glass windows in flamboyant Gothic style (the closest to the choir) on each side. There are three stained glass windows of Gothic inspiration and a Romanesque stained glass window. On the plan dating from 1852, we can see a porch that has now disappeared. The bell was installed in 1810. It was named Marie-Céléstine. Damaged, it was repaired in 1956 and named Louise-Simone. The Stations of the Cross were made by Mr Bernacchi in 2000. We discovered that Poisvilliers was a parish until 1807. It was then united with that of Berchères-la-Maingot. We found old plans attesting to the presence of a presbytery opposite the church.

The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chartres

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A dream of a cathedral 🥰 you should definitely visit it at two different times of the day, as the glass windows look completely different depending on the position of the sun - phenomenal

Composed of a Romanesque nave with flat buttresses placed symmetrically on each side (typical of the end of the 11th century or the first half of the 12th century), it was completely remodeled in the 16th century and the end of the 20th century. The bays of the nave are from the 15th century, in flamboyant Gothic style, as is the rose window. The span of the bell tower and the choir, with ribbed vaults, date from the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. As early as the 16th century, the bell tower had a clock, quite rare and expensive for the time. The pillars of the central bay are richly molded and crowned with thin bands of foliage serving as capitals. The windows are decorated with flamboyant tracery of varied designs. The Romanesque portal was also remodeled in the 16th century. The powerful central bell tower with buttresses [formerly had three bells named PIC DAN JON. There will only be one left after the Revolution, the other two having been melted down to make cannons and ammunition.