Saint-Fulgent-des-Ormes

• The church of Saint-Fulgent:

• A * if male was planted near the entrance of the church, once surrounded the cemetery. Its double trunk supports a crown masking a part of the building. This tree burial is the only vegetable matter in crossing the town whose name evokes another species, now rare: the elm.
• You enter the church through a porch (heavily restored) recalling the original Romanesque of the building, confirmed by the narrow and high semicircular bay above it. During the Renaissance, the nave was extended by two chapels lit windows flamboyant tracery to. The flat bed was pierced by three bays forming pointed arch "triplet" of the thirteenth century., Probably walled up in the early eighteenth century. during installation of the high altar.
• In the gable wall of the south chapel, between a corner buttress and a Gothic window, a sundial was painted in 1991 at the site of a former.
• In the chancel: altar (early eighteenth s - MH Cl..) With medium-relief emblazoned ** Clay, "The Transfiguration", after Raphael; gilded wooden statues of St. Godegrand and Saint Opportune.
• * The yew is a dioecious species: male and female foot foot grow separately. Only female flowers give rise to arils, a kind of bright red fleshy berry containing a single seed, toxic.
• ** Offered by the abbess of St. Julien du Pré, in Le Mans, Catherine d'Aumont, who died in 1708 who wore weapons "of money accompanied gules chevron seven martlets same four chief 2 and 2, three peak 1 and 2 ".

• Hemp ovens:

• The land of the town, rich and deep, were conducive to the cultivation of hemp. Its production, attested in the leases from the thirteenth century., Shows the importance given to this plant which "is prepared and converted into yarn, and this thread, we make paintings." Still frequent in the vicinity of farms, kilns hemp are the last witnesses of a former agricultural activity which lasted until about 1960 to Textile plant for exhausting the soil, hemp also required many tillage. In early September, after being lifted by hand, by handfuls, hemp boots were made a week in a pool ret (rouisson) or stream to facilitate the separation of fibers from the bark. Then came a first drying air, "in chapels" on the stubble. The boots were then steamed in ovens. * Most often cylindrical, covered with a conical roof tiles in the shell, they were built mostly in the second half of the nineteenth century. **.
• Isolated, away from operating or housing for fear of fire buildings, the oven had two levels. In the upper part is the boots piled vertically on top of a metal floor slatted. Below, the heating chamber, accessed by a door half-buried, was fueled by a "basket" burning coke. Drying between 50 ° and 60 °, lasted 24 hours. Once dry, hemp was crushed with a hand or mechanical grinder braie (scutching) to separate the woody parts (boon) in tow. Hemp "scutched" was reserved for ropes and coarse fabrics; hemp "combed" used in the manufacture of finer fabrics, so-called "stranded wire", and in the manufacture of ropes.
• * There still are 15 ovens hemp in the commune of Saint-Fulgent; the last built are square.
• ** Previously, hemp was left to dry in ovens or in ovens dug into an embankment.
• A more complete history of the village appears in a monograph published in 1987 by the Friends of Perch.

The town festival is held annually the Sunday before August 15.

• From 11 to 14 july 2024
• Lieux à venir
• Theater shows and readings for young and old in 6 village gardens