Porte Saint Julien – Champagné Mill loop from La Ferté-Bernard
Porte Saint Julien – Champagné Mill loop from La Ferté-Bernard
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Porte Saint Julien – Champagné Mill loop from La Ferté-Bernard
03:37
90.7km
340m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 19, 2026
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After 17.4 km for 184 m
After 51.7 km for 319 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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1.01 km
Porte Saint Julien
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Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
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The oldest part of the current building is the nave, much remodeled subsequently but the base of the walls of which shows in places a structure made of small rubble stones from the Romanesque period at the latest. But above all, the north gable wall and the first bay of the gutter walls show traces of openings and corner chains made of bricks alternating with limestone cut stones. This formula, rare if not unique in Perche Sarthois, is debated as to its dating. Some historians see it as a testimony to Carolingian architecture. Others, more cautious, put forward an archaic dating of the 11th century, where the use of brick alternating with stone would be an economic choice rather than an aesthetic one: this would explain a certain irregularity in the implementation, particularly in the arch of the old door of the north gable wall. The same uncertainty hangs over the addition of the buttresses and the opening of the current north gate. The nave is covered with a new framework and a spire and the paneling was installed in 1604 as evidenced by the signature (repainted in 1885) “In 1604 this Church was labruchée – Tomas Mabile attorney of the Fabrique de Séans ".
The dating of the other parts of the church is not much easier. The construction of the east chapel (presbytery side) is not in too much doubt, the Renaissance decoration of the door to the street and the cupboard, although crude, indicates the middle of the 16th century. This chapel, dedicated to the Virgin, belonged to the lords of Chéronne. Its western counterpart (square side), dedicated to the Sacré-Cœur and built by the lords of Ramée, is less easy to date due to lack of ancient decor. This chapel could have been built shortly before or shortly after that of Chéronne, but undoubtedly not simultaneously, as evidenced by the slight asymmetry of the roofs and the different profile of the structural members. The apse, generally considered to also date from the 16th century, could only be from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century, as a bundle of clues suggests: the axial wall left blind probably to accommodate an altarpiece, the plan burrow made between 1757 and 1759 which still shows a circular apse undoubtedly Romanesque, as well as a document from 1775, indicating that the priest "would have had the necessary and pleasant works done to the great altar of the said church caused by the demolition and construction that Mrs de Saint-Vincent would have had the gable of the said church made. The sacristy would be a 17th century addition.
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51.9 km
Champagné Mill
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59.5 km
Roman Bridge of Montfort-le-Gesnois
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Saint-Maurice Church
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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.
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90.7 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
85.5 km
3.09 km
883 m
867 m
328 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
87.4 km
2.83 km
344 m
123 m
116 m
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