ÉGLISE SAINT-LÉGER
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Massive church known for two statues and two funerary slabs classified in the inventory of historical monuments
It is the church without a steeple! This massive church built on its mound stands out by its lack of a bell tower. The latter, a threatening ruin, was demolished at the end of the 1920s. The bell which it housed has been moved above the entrance porch, the original porch and the only vestige of a former medieval abbey church. It was the church of a Benedictine abbey whose former courtyard (private property) and former cemetery - now a green space -, can be seen nearby. Severely damaged during the French Revolution and probably in 1914, this building was rebuilt in the 1950s. The church of Saint-Léger is known today for housing two statues and two funerary slabs classified in the inventory of Historic Monuments. These are a stone statue of the Virgin and Child (14th century) and a polychrome wooden statuette from the 16th century. The funeral slab of Marie de Folenfant, who died in 1523, who was the wife of Tristan de Verdelot, Lord of the Chapel, and the funeral slab of a couple, Jean de Laistre, Sieur de Champgueffier in the 17th century, whose full title is engraved in the stone (squire lord of Champgueffier de Haultbois de Maulny du Coudray du Grancey des Bordes de Boisguio et de La Chapelle Iger in part) and his wife Edmée d'Ancienville. These remarkably well-preserved slabs indicate the funerary art of their time and the Verdelot and Laistre families who owned the fiefdom of La Chapelle-Iger and the castle of Champgueffier.
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