Visit of the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church and its village

Name: Visite de l’église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine et son village
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Sainte Marie Madeleine

For the 40th edition of the European Heritage Days, the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Forcé church opens its doors.

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

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For the 40th edition of the European Heritage Days, the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Forcé opens its doors.
Although the construction of the building cannot be accurately dated, the sources at our disposal place it in the 11th or 12th century. The primitive Romanesque building was to have only one nave, but was enlarged by a transept and a choir in the 17th with circular chevet.
The north and south chapels date from the 18th. The seigneurial bench executed around 1780 for Jean René Pierre Le Clerc de la Jubertière who bought the seigneury of Forcé in 1780. The sacristy was attached to the end of the church around 1895.
The reconstruction of the choir was directed in 1837 by the chaufournier entrepreneur Frédéric Ricosset. The pulpit to be preached dates from 1839. The buttresses of the facade were probably altered in the 15th century and frame a Greek portal in tuffeau dated «Deo Optimum Maximo sumptibus D. Jacquot 1840» (thanks to donations from).
In 1985, the building underwent a rejuvenation, the result of which is now before our eyes.

À propos du lieu

Eglise Sainte Marie Madeleine

Place de l'église, 53260 Forcé

Mayenne
Pays de la Loire

Although the building’s construction cannot be precisely dated, the sources at our disposal place it in the 11th or 12th century. The early Romanesque building was to have only one nave and then it was enlarged by a transept and a choir in the 17th with circular chevet. The north and south chapels date from the 18th century. The sacristy was added at the end of the church around 1895\. The buttresses of the facade were probably altered in the 15th century and frame a Greek portal in tuffeau dated by this inscription «Deo Optimum Maximo sumptibus D. Jacquot 1840» (thanks to the gifts of). The reconstruction of the choir was directed in 1837 by the chaufournier entrepreneur Frédéric Ricosset. The Venerable Lady was treated to a rejuvenation cure in 1985, the result of which is offered to us today and made Abbé Saget say in one of her columns: “The nave is finished and the vault has stripped its plaster coating back to its original state: beams and wooden slats appear again, the walls hav