Église Saint-Mansuy de Fontenoy-le-Château

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The Saint-Mansuy church of Fontenoy-le-Château is a flamboyant Gothic Catholic building (15th and 16th centuries). It has been classified as historic monuments since 28 July 1922.

The early church, dating from 1111, on which the present building was rebuilt, was placed under the name of Mansuy de Toul and thus marked Fontenoy-le-Château's membership in the ecclesiastical county of Toul. A Benedictine priory dependent on the grand abbey of Saint-Mansuy of Toul of Saint-Mansuy-lès-Toul was built at the same time as the church. There is only one vaulted room supported by two Romanesque columns and the name of Priolè or Priolet that this part of the hill is called. From the Romanesque church, there would remain only the foundations where were found at the end of the nineteenth century:

"... the cobblestone of the old church; Then, in the midst of the rubble that filled the space between this paving stone and the new one, we found the presence of three or even four rows of coffins lying above each other... »

Father Hanus wrote in 1975, in his plaque for visitors, about the location of the church...