Saint-Hilaire Church – Escorpain Castle loop from Nonancourt

Saint-Hilaire Church – Escorpain Castle loop from Nonancourt

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Saint-Hilaire Church – Escorpain Castle loop from Nonancourt

03:36

86.5km

500m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 16, 2026

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Start point

Train Station

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16.9 km

Coastal departure KM104

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Former National road located 104 km from Paris.

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The Saint-Hilaire church in Tillières-sur-Avre is a church located in the town of Tillières-sur-Avre, in the department of Eure. Built in the Romanesque style of the 11th century, it was remodeled in the 19th century.

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Saint-Hilaire Church

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The church is located near a departmental road and is surrounded by a cemetery.

Church oriented with a longitudinal plan composed of a single nave. The entrance to the building is via a porch body. An annex building is attached to the north side of the choir.

The western facade of the porch body rises on two levels delimited by a projecting cornice. It is pierced by a low-arched door as well as a rose window in the upper part.
The bell tower, of polygonal plan, is positioned on the ridge of the roof. It is covered with a polygonal spire surmounted by a ridge cross and has two roof eaves.
The building is covered with a gable roof. That of the annex building ends in a hip.
The side walls are pierced with arched bays and supported by buttresses. The annex building is pierced by a quadrangular window and door.

The buttresses of the choir bear witness to the Romanesque origins of the church. The nave, built in the 16th century, was enlarged in the 19th century by a bay to the west. The bays of the building were re-pierced around 1822.

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Saint Sulpice Church

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small church and its cemetery

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31.6 km

Saint-Lubin Church

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church with special bell tower: octagonal on a square base

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Saint Lubin Church

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Placed under the patronage of Saint-Lubin, bishop of Chartres in the 6th century, the church of Prudemanche has experienced many vicissitudes over the centuries. Ruined during the English invasions and then devastated by the Protestants, the current building is said to be the third construction, undertaken at the dawn of the 17th century. Its style, very simple, is even said to have been deliberate so as not to offend the austerity of a part of the population who remained Calvinist. Rectangular in plan, the nave is extended by a choir with a flat chevet of the same width.

To the northeast of the church, a sacristy has been added, accessible by a side door of the choir. The nave is pierced with semicircular bays probably coming from the original Romanesque building. The raftered nave frame supporting the truss is paneled. The walls are made up of a wooden frame with flint masonry infill mounted with lime mortar. The façades and the chevet are supported by powerful buttresses of grison. According to a drawing from 1852, the initial portal to the west had a double bay occupying the width of this arch. The roof is made of old flat tiles, while the bell tower with a quadrangular base is covered in slate.

The furniture consists of a single altar, a bench, a pulpit, a glory beam and two statues remaining from the old altarpiece of the 15th century. On the north side of the nave, wall paintings appear under the 19th century rendering.

For the consolidation of the masonry of the choir, the repair of the roof and the framework, the Sauvegarde de l’Art Français granted, in 1997, a grant of 15,000 F.

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Escorpain Castle

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The Château d'Escorpain is a 16th century castle which belonged to the famous Firmin-Didot family of printers and publishers. You can admire the elegant facade and the imposing portal of the castle, classified as historical monuments. You can also discover the surrounding countryside, crossed by the Pluche, a tributary of the Avre. You will appreciate the green landscapes and the peaceful atmosphere of this rural village.

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Saint-Germain Church of Escorpain

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The parish church of Escorpain, dedicated to Saint Germain, is a very simple building, rectangular in plan and of modest dimensions. With a single nave, it ends with a flat chevet; a sacristy is attached to the north side of the choir; the gable wall of the façade is topped with a slate spire. The church is mentioned as early as the 12th century. The small rubble stonework, which also bears the traces of numerous alterations, and the small openings, three in number in the north wall and only one in the south wall, constitute the oldest remains of this building which was extensively restored in the 19th century. It was in fact from 1886, thanks to the generosity of the Firmin-Didot family that the building was raised, as evidenced by the gable wall of the façade. The nave was then covered with a panelled vault, replacing the previous framework: the 1886 inscription mentions previous work campaigns, in the 17th century in particular. The entire interior was redesigned, not without unity, in a neo-Gothic style. As for the two large bays in the south wall, probably pierced in the 16th century, they were greatly altered during this campaign. For the repair of the exterior masonry, the rendering of the façade, the roofs of the nave and a slope of the sacristy, the Sauvegarde de l’Art Français granted this unprotected church a subsidy of 80,000 F in 1994.

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86.5 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

86.2 km

320 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

78.8 km