Ménil-Gondouin

Ménil-Gondouin is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Coconière, La Haute Bruyèreand Ménil-Gondouin.

The commune is part of area known as Suisse Normande.

Menil-Gondouin only has one watercourse running through it, the Ruisseau de Vienne.

The living and talking church of Ménil-Gondouin
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).

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.

National heritage sites
The Commune has 2 other buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique


 * Domain of the Court  a set of remains of an old 16th century Chateau that belonged to Antoine de Turgot, that was listed as a Monument historique in 1983.
 * Logis Saint-Honorine  an 18th Century chateau with outbuildings dating back to the 15th century, listed as Monument Historique in 1975