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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.

On the water line, taken to Paris

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

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 church is located in the heart of the town, preceded by a small square. Period and styles Xth XVIth XIth Main stages of construction The building dates from the 10th or 11th century. The facade and the front part of the nave date from the 16th century. The steeples destroyed in 1945 by lightning have been rebuilt. https://www.patrimoine-religieux.fr/eglises_edifices/27-Eure/27115-Breux-sur-Avre/178516-eglisesaint-germain

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.