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Detailed information is available on Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_Saint-Julien_(La_Fert%C3%A9-Bernard)

a lake to rest.

In this architecture we find different styles and periods, from the 12th, 15th, 16th to the 19th century, including Gothic and Neo-Romanesque. Romanesque bays and foothills. Stained glass window and 16th century font as well as the current apse and the two side chapels. The south door with its lintel and its straight feet decorated with rosettes and diamonds. The church had stained glass windows from the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century. Fragments exist in the speckles and spandrels of the bay of the Rosary Chapel, listed in 1983. The stained glass windows are almost all dated and signed by the same glass painter between 1885-1889 "af Paris" probably Anselme Fialex, son of François Fialex who was a glass painter in Mayet Creation of an entrance to the square as well as the opening of new 19th century bays. the vault, paneled and undoubtedly painted from the beginning, was redone in 1602 with restoration in the 19th century, when a new decoration was painted. The main altar dates from 1867.

The Saint Jean Baptiste Church was built in the 16th century and transformed in the 19th century.

Of Romanesque origin, it houses several works classified as objects. It was built in several stages: in the 12th and 13th centuries, as evidenced by its counter-broken porch visible after passing the first door of the bell tower, then in the 15th and 16th centuries with the construction of the bell tower, the opening of fitted side doors in the foothills (unique in the region), and its widening to the south with the opening of two Renaissance style bays with stained glass windows listed in 1905, representing Saint Michael and his two donors, Saint Catherine in the center with the reconstituted coats of arms of a seigneurial family of La Rouge: the Le Roy de Chavigny, finally a pietà. The church played a protective role for its population during peasant revolts but also during banditry. It was equipped with a high square bell tower with four windows at its top to monitor the surroundings, a bretèche above the main portal and an airlock for its two side doors protected by its thick buttresses. The apse is flat as in many small country churches. Two windows were opened to the north to provide more light in 1790. After the revolutionary turmoil, a 17th century altarpiece (classified in 1968) from the Récollets de Cherré near La Ferté-Bernard was installed.

The first part of the church, a wide and short nave (slate roof) dates from the 11th century. It shows a device marked by the use of russet and monolithic arch bays characteristic of the beginning of the 11th century. During the Renaissance a new choir was built and the Romanesque bell tower was raised. The nave received new windows, the main portal was rebuilt and the elevation of the stone bell tower began on the left annex. The interior of the church was restored in the 1990s by the Cormes Heritage Committee. Schedules Monday, Thursday & Friday: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Tuesday: 5:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m. Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

The Romanesque nave is the oldest part of the church. The choir has a stone vault with ribbed ribs, divided into two bays, in the upper part of the main altar. The stained glass window is from the beginning of the 16th century, it represents the marriage, in 1505, of Marie de Melun and John of Bruges with, behind the two figures, Saint John and the Virgin. The Gothic style sink dates from the 16th century, with a main shelf hollowed out by two round bowls. On the sides are two columns with small carved capitals. In 1625, addition of a side nave. In the 19th century, construction of the castle chapel and the sacristy, then modification of the choir. In 1505 John of Bruges had the choir rebuilt for his wedding. The Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church dates from various periods. The church was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Originally dependent on the bishopric of Chartres, the parish of Montmirail was only attached to the bishopric of Le Mans in 1801.

12th century church. Painted decoration from the 16th and 17th centuries (nave decorated with murals from the first half of the 16th century), glass roofs from the 16th century. Western facade: Romanesque portal with 16th century leaves. 15th century framework modified to make the vault in the 16th century. 17th century altarpiece on the apse wall.