Self-guided tour of the church

Rue de l'église, 61250 Pacé, Orne, Normandie, France
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20 - 21 September 2025
Overview

The Church of Saint-Pierre de Pacé has a rectangular plan, to which was added, during the fourteenth century, a tower finished with a battlemented roof and pierced by four narrow trilobed bays. The North chapel was built in the fifteenth century and like the tower or nave, it has a gable uncovered (trace of an old thatched roof or branching) decorated with a simple granite cross. The sacristy was added only in the nineteenth century to replace a northern side entrance once equipped with an awning. Some elements in the architecture to be detected:

  • Building materials: granite, limestone and brown shale (ferrous) Visible on the south exterior wall of the nave:
  • arrangement of the stones in fish bone (opus spicatum) Visible on the north exterior wall of the nave:
  • the traces of the old canopy and the first entrance to the church, removed to establish two windows in the nave (semicircular arch framed by two windows) Among the furniture inside the church: The nave, composed of three bays, has a panelled ceiling that was reworked in the first half of the 17th century. Only the framework seems to date from the fourteenth century. The paving of the nave was made in the eighteenth century. In the choir:
  • Master altar with his altarpiece with triangular pediment, carved wood, painted and gilded, nineteenth century, his nativity canvas, and his statues of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Latuin, polychromed wood, folk art. In the nave, western façade:
  • Painting of the Holy Family, oil on canvas, 17th century
  • Two windows dedicated to Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, late 19th century SAINT-PIERRE The patronage of Saint-Pierre often refers to a very old building. Apostle of Christ and first Pope, he is recognizable by these attributes: representation with a broad beard, the papal tiara, he usually holds one or two keys as at La Roche-Mabile for example.
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Address
Rue de l'église, 61250 Pacé, Orne, Normandie, France

48.444999, -0.002863

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