La Vieille-Lyre

Champignolles:

Long common least populated Eure, Champignolles is a small village that appears as the archetype of Normandy with its picturesque landscapes, wide valley, pastures, old buildings and farms. Located on the edge of the Risle, this miraculously preserved village has an exceptional set of landscaped and natural areas that make it the most beautiful gateway to the Risle Valley.

Municipality	La Vieille-Lyre
Postcode	27330
Tourism label
Latitude	48.9175270 (N 48° 55’ 3”)
Longitude	0.7489340 (E 0° 44’ 56”)
Altitude	From 127m to 187m
Surface area	19.63 km²
Population	682 inhabitants
Density	34 inhabitants/km²
Prefecture	Evreux (34 km, 37 min)
Insee code	27685
Intercommunality	CC Interco Normandie Sud Eure
Department	Eure
Region	Normandy

Municipality

La Vieille-Lyre

Postcode

27330

Tourism label

Latitude

48.9175270 (N 48° 55’ 3”)

Longitude

0.7489340 (E 0° 44’ 56”)

Altitude

From 127m to 187m

Surface area

19.63 km²

Population

682 inhabitants

Density

34 inhabitants/km²

Prefecture

Evreux (34 km, 37 min)

Insee code

27685

Intercommunality

CC Interco Normandie Sud Eure

Department

Eure

Region

Normandy

La Neuve-Lyre	1.2 km (3 min)
Bois-Normand-près-Lyre	5.2 km (6 min)
Bois-Anzeray	5.9 km (8 min)
Neaufles-Auvergny	6.6 km (7 min)
Le Fidelaire	6.8 km (8 min)
Les Baux-de-Breteuil	7.5 km (10 min)
La Ferrière-sur-Risle	8 km (13 min)
Ambenay	9.7 km (9 min)
Les Bottereaux	9.7 km (12 min)
Sébécourt	9.9 km (13 min)
Le Lesme	10.2 km (13 min)
La Houssaye	10.6 km (17 min)
Rugles	11.8 km (12 min)
Le Noyer-en-Ouche	12.4 km (20 min)

La Neuve-Lyre

1.2 km (3 min)

Bois-Normand-près-Lyre

5.2 km (6 min)

5.9 km (8 min)

6.6 km (7 min)

6.8 km (8 min)

7.5 km (10 min)

La Ferrière-sur-Risle

8 km (13 min)

9.7 km (9 min)

9.7 km (12 min)

9.9 km (13 min)

10.2 km (13 min)

10.6 km (17 min)

11.8 km (12 min)

12.4 km (20 min)

Champignolles:

The parish church Saint-Gilles Saint-Loup (Xth or XIth century), of medieval Norman architecture.

Its construction, probably initiated in the first half of the twelfth century, began, to advance first to the east, then north and south, by the bedside lock flint and gray topped with a square belfry and artistically covered with essences with a polygonal arrow whose southern face, because of the arrangement of its gills, could be seen as an allegorical representation of King Arthur - which is that of a king who is "primus inter pares" ("first between the equals ") but also sovereign - (the Arthurian myth has served much to William the Conqueror and Henry II Plantagenet). The quality of design and execution of its medieval structure, using the techniques of shipbuilding inverted hull, oak frame of an exceptional state of preservation, that of its steeple with its arrow that elegantly translates the momentum towards the sky. On its base, the console supports all the decorative elements: weather vane, ball representing the celestial sphere and rooster, symbol of the denial of Saint-Pierre.
The rendering of its probably green wood, the nature of some assemblages, its monochrome stave vault, its fluted pillars on each of their faces to the base of the doubleaux which chant the broken cradle of the vault and its shattered lancet shows the skill of the builders of the Norman school found in a large number of churches in England.
The second campaign (beginning of the 13th century (?)), Which corresponds to the construction of the apse, transept, choir and cross, is similar to that of the nave, with distinctions the exterior (primitive foothills without projections, a new art of building). The other or the other campaigns (early and mid-sixteenth century) - that we owe perhaps to Georges d'Amboise or Guillaume d'Estouteville, prestigious patrons who allowed the Renaissance to blossom in Normandy - corresponds (ent) to the construction of the porch frame molded 16th century which gives access to the church by a beautiful door folds of napkin (redone in the eighteenth century), the sacristy with its superb lancet and to that of a flinty square chapel skillfully paired with a magnificent gable, black and white checkerboard, gray flint and chalk of the most beautiful effect, with angles and stone bays, sandstone buttress, added at the beginning of the sixteenth century, at the eastern end of the nave, to the south. The window of the gable, "flamboyant and lanceolate, of great style and without doubt a work of a learned architect far from the workmen." Jean de la Varende, The Promenades, Champignolles, The French Nation, May 2, 1957, is in third-point and mullion, and has a gothic filler and moldings. The gable of the gable, crowned by a circular fleuron and an antefix cross decorated with Gothic festoons, offers a chessboard of cut flints and stones. The crawlers are stone, flanked by two acroteria.
The architectural unity that emerges from its different construction campaigns is remarkable.
The church is dedicated to Saint Gilles, represented as a hermit with the doe for attribute and Saint Loup (Saint Leu) represented mitten archbishop holding the butt or the cross with two ties.

Monuments	Abbey Notre-Dame de Lyre

Last name	Activity type	Rate	City
Cookery lessons at La Maison du Chef Normand	Local flavours	55 €	Saint-Philbert-des-Champs (47 km)
Telemark water skiing at the Fontaine Simon site	Sports sensations	22 € to 75 €	Fontaine-Simon (49 km)

Last name

Activity type

Rate

City

Cookery lessons at La Maison du Chef Normand

Local flavours

55 €

Saint-Philbert-des-Champs (47 km)

Telemark water skiing at the Fontaine Simon site

Sports sensations

22 € to 75 €

Fontaine-Simon (49 km)

Last name	Outing type	Difficulty	Duration	Departure municipality
Way of the Three Calvaries	Hike	Easy	3:00	Asnières (40 km)
Medieval legacy in the Val de Risle	Cycling itinerary	Easy	4:00	Montfort-sur-Risle (42 km)
Hiking in Mouettes	Hike	Easy	2:50	Mouettes (45 km)
Saracens Path	Hike	Easy	3:00	Condé-sur-Risle (45 km)
The Oppidum Trail	Hike	Intermediate	1:10	Orival (49 km)

Last name

Outing type

Difficulty

Duration

Departure municipality

Way of the Three Calvaries

Hike

Easy