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The first mention of the existence of the Church of Saint-Martin de Nonancourt is a 12th-century charter, but the original building probably dates back to the 7th or 8th century. The bell tower that now occupies the middle of the façade dates from the reconstructions of 1204. During the Hundred Years' War, the church was largely destroyed, like many buildings in the region. The side aisles, nave, and choir were rebuilt in the 16th century. The Chapel of the Virgin, also known as the Chapel of the Rosary, was also added. The Church of Saint-Martin contains numerous works of art, some of which are listed: neo-Gothic and Renaissance furnishings, including the centerpiece, the pulpit, a veritable wooden lacework; a variety of statuary, a 16th-century organ case and finally an enigmatic fresco discovered during recent works in 2001. The stained-glass windows of the church constitute a truly remarkable collection, both in terms of their number (26 in total) and their quality. The lower windows of the nave are the oldest pieces, dating from the 1500s, while the upper windows date from the 1520s and 1530s.

Built in the 15th century on the foundations of a chapel whose origins can be traced back to a papal bull from Pope Alexander in 1142, Saint Apollonia was worshipped there.

On the eastern edge of the Pays d'Ouche, between Breteuil-sur-Iton and Verneuil-sur-Avre, the village of Dame-Marie has been home to at least one building dedicated to the Virgin Mary since the 11th century. While certain elements such as the lower half of the south façade or the baptismal font are reminiscent of a 13th/14th century building, the building was almost completely rebuilt in the 16th century, after the ruins caused by the Hundred Years' War. The following were then created: raised stone buttresses, single or double-mullioned windows with flamboyant tracery pierced to the south of the nave, bays with banded arches and semicircular arches. Finally, the essential contribution was the addition of a seigneurial chapel of Saint-Sébastien to the north of the nave. After numerous alterations in 1955 and more recently, it now presents a general state of disrepair. The village of Dame-Marie merged in 2016 with those of Saint-Ouen d'Attez and Saint-Nicolas d'Attez, to form the commune of Sainte-Marie d'Attez, which has fewer than 600 inhabitants. Two of the three churches listed as Historic Monuments required major restoration work. The commune began with the emergency of the one in Saint-Ouen which was threatened with closure. It is now the one in Dame-Marie which requires major restoration. We are attached to our three churches, they bear witness to our past, help us to pass them on to future generations!

The building is oriented. The church is built according to an elongated plan with a semicircular apse chevet. There is a porch at the front of the nave and it adjoins another building. Access to the church is via a porch made of half-timbering. A wooden door is placed on the south side of this porch. The gable wall on which this porch is placed is devoid of decoration. The south drip wall is pierced with two small semicircular bays. The drip walls are decorated with a checkerboard frieze. The semicircular chevet to the east is slightly narrower and lower than the nave. It has three semicircular bays. Finally, on the ridge of the roof is placed on the west side a bell tower. This square-based bell tower is opened with a few louvered openings. Finally, a domed octagonal spire rises above the square base. The roof of the porch and the nave has two inclined planes. The chevet is covered with a hipped roof.

Notre-Dame-des-Puits Chapel. This Marian chapel, the foundation of which is the subject of a legend, dates back to the 12th century: while digging a well, a villager is said to have found a statue of the Virgin that he took to the parish church of Droisy, but which returned to the well three times at night, a miracle that reflected the Virgin's desire to see a chapel dedicated to her in this place. The building seems to have suffered heavy damage during the wars of the 15th century, like the surrounding villages, but, rebuilt in the following century, it was invoked against plague epidemics and was the site of new miracles. A brotherhood, created in the 18th century, ensured the organization of festivals and pilgrimages, and contributed to the purchase of the furniture: it is to them that we owe the order for the altar and its altarpiece, as well as the stained glass windows. Confiscated during the Revolution, the chapel was bought back by the faithful who reconstituted a brotherhood. In contemporary times, it was enlarged to the west by the construction of a porch, probably to facilitate access to the building on pilgrimage days, and two doors were opened there, one to the west, the other to the south. It is a building with a quadrangular plan of fairly large dimensions, with a modest wooden bell tower which has kept its bell from 1775. On the almost blind north facade, a small sacristy was added at the level of the choir. From its origins, it has retained, at the chevet, only fragments of masonry in grison and the trace of two bays. Renovations in the 15th and 16th centuries date several openings, including a pointed window with a trilobed network in the southern wall and a thick buttress halfway up the chevet. The interior of the building is covered with a wooden vault that was in poor condition. The church has a large amount of furniture, the masterpiece of which is undoubtedly the magnificent altarpiece, dated 1644, the work of Jean Racine, a painter and sculptor from Rouen; the iconography of the whole is dedicated to the Holy Family and the painting represents the Nativity. The work is set between two fluted columns and two pilasters, under a broken pediment and a niche in which a Virgin and Child, adored by two angels, has been placed. In front of each pilaster, two monumental statues have been placed, on the right Saint Anne and the Virgin, on the left Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus. The main altar is framed by two side altars, placed slightly back and at an angle and connected to each other by paneling; two doors were opened on the right and left in this woodwork to allow access, behind the altar, to the miraculous well which was located slightly below the apse For the repair of the covering paneling, the Sauvegarde de l’Art français granted aid of €10,000 in 2008.

The Saint-Rémy church in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre is dedicated to Saint Remi of Reims, Bishop of Reims who baptized Clovis in 496 in the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Reims. In the 12th century, it marked the border between the Duchy of Normandy and the French royal domain on which Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre depends. It is a flamboyant Gothic church from the 15th century, probably rebuilt since we have mention of its existence since the end of the 11th century.

Église Saint Madeleine is a church where beautiful various statues of Saints, famous and less famous. The reason for so many different statues is that the school of sculpture was established here.

church with special bell tower: octagonal on a square base