Allaines-Mervilliers

Walking the Via Turonensis I had two books with me. One was a little booklet, telling me, where to turn left or right. The most important (absolut recommendable!) book was Anne Prache´s "Ile de France Romane".

Anne Prache mentions, that in the hamlet of Mervilliers is a former church with a remarkable tympanum. Mervilliers consists out of 10 or 15 residential houses - and a large farm. I entered the farm and tried to find anybody to ask. But there was nobody at home. This was private property and I did feel uneasy, walking around, knocking on doors and shouting "Allo" and "Coucou"......

I left the farm and walking back met a lady, whom I could ask. She assured me, that one of the barns was a church once, but had never seen the tympanum. One barn near the road was obviously older than the others. I found a small wooden garden gate. I pushed it open, entered, turned around - and there was the tympanum.