Ménil-Gondouin | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Argentan |
Canton: | Athis-Val de Rouvre |
Insee: | 61265 |
Postal Code: | 61210 |
Mayor: | Pascal Bouquerel[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Val d'Orne |
Coordinates: | 48.7553°N -0.2925°W |
Elevation M: | 229 |
Elevation Min M: | 157 |
Elevation Max M: | 254 |
Area Km2: | 9.17 |
Ménil-Gondouin (in French pronounced as /menil ɡɔ̃dwɛ̃/) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Coconière, La Haute Bruyèreand Ménil-Gondouin.[2]
The commune is part of area known as Suisse Normande.[3]
Menil-Gondouin only has one watercourse running through it, the Ruisseau de Vienne.
Saint-Vigor du Ménil-Gondouin church is a nineteenth century church that has been covered in statues and dozens of inscriptions by a single person, the parish priest Victor Paysant (1841-1921).[4]
The church contains the head of a statue, of the Crowned Virgin, that is dating back to the 14th/15th Century and was listed as a Monument historique in 1984.[5]
The Commune has 2 other buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique[3]