Discover the alleys and ancient stelae of the cemetery

Name: Discover the alleys and ancient stelae of the cemetery
Start: 2021-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Église et Cimetière Saint-Hilaire

Located 2 km from the village of Marville, you will find the Saint-Hilaire cemetery and its 12th century Romanesque church.

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©La Lorraine gaumaise - Michel Laurent

Located 2 km from the village of Marville, you will find the Saint-Hilaire cemetery and its 12th century Romanesque church.

The most unusual remains the ossuary which gathers 40,000 skulls and bones stored by the guardian Mostch at the end of the 19th century.

About the location

Église et Cimetière Saint-Hilaire

Cimetière, 55600 Marville

Meuse
Grand Est

The cemetery can of many headstones of XVTH - XVIIITH centuries. It also shelters the chapel Saint-Hilaire of the XIIth century very altered in Gothic time(period), an ossuary of the end of the XVth century, gatehouse and house of many religious sculptures of which Christ in Links attributed(awarded) to the school of Ligier Richer and of the steles of the XVIth century (?) representing apostles.