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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.

Judging by the historical memories attached to this commune and by the ruins of castles and hamlets that can be found there, Crucey, whose name was formerly written Crucé, must have had, in ancient times, a certain importance. A railway "via strata", called Caesar, separates the commune of Crucey from that of Vitray where we find it under the name of "via perrata". In the 15th century, the commune of Crucey existed in a place called Bois-Armand, but it was completely ruined at the time of the wars between the English and Normans. Several hamlets, of which only the fields recall the name, were destroyed and, since then, the commune has reformed a kilometer further to the north, in the place it occupies today. The church of Crucey, mentioned from the 10th century, belonged to the abbey of Saint-Père. By prefectural decree of 07/12/1972 (J.O. of 10/01/1973, n° 8, page 480) the communes of Crucey, Mainterne, and Vitray-sous-Brezolles, were united into a single commune which took the name of Crucey Villages, and whose chief town is located in the former commune of Crucey.

The Madeleine Tower overlooks a beautiful square, surrounded by numerous terraces where it is good to quench your thirst after your exercise!

A beautiful spot to visit.

Medieval heritage of the town of Verneuil which preserves numerous traces of this past and its former flourishing activities: first of all, the market square, just opposite the imposing and sumptuous Madeleine church (12th century). This “enormous and graceful stone flower”, in the words of the painter Maurice Vlaminck, underwent numerous embellishments in the medieval period to become one of the great jewels of flamboyant Gothic in Normandy.

A tower steeped in history!

The entire Gray Tower, as well as the soils corresponding to the influence of its old ditches, included in a space determined by a distance of 7.70 m from the walls of the building, as delimited on the plan annexed to the decree (cad. N 218 to 221, 330; on the place Saint-Laurent and the rue de la Tour-Grise, public domain not registered): classification by decree of February 15, 2016

This tower surprises you at the turn! She is the witness of a terrible episode of the Hundred Years War. The Battle of Verneuil in 1424 pitted 11,000 French and their 7,000 Scottish allies against 14,000 English. The Gray Tower is an old keep built by Philippe-Auguste in 1204 following the conquest of the Duchy of Normandy. Its name comes from a brown stone used for its construction called grison.