Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine

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Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Church is a parish Catholic church located in Perchay, France. It is a small, rustic building, resulting from the successive transformation of a single-vessel Romanesque church, which can be dated from the end of the 11th or first quarter of the 12th century. The nave with its interesting portal and the base of the bell tower with its two archaic arcades still remain from that time, but all the windows were pierced, and the base of the bell tower was vaulted with warheads in the first Gothic period.

In the 13th century, the chapel of the Virgin forming crusillon was added to the south of the bell tower. After the Hundred Years' War, the belfry floor was redone, and the Romanesque choir was replaced by two bays of flamboyant Gothic style, and the nave was equipped with a single side bass, also located to the south. Its cradle vault evokes classical architecture, and perhaps dates only from the seventeenth century.

Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Church was listed as a historical monument by order of December 14, 1979, and the nave and the lower side were restored in the early 1990s. Le Perchay is now affiliated with the parish of Avernes and Marines, and...