Eglise Saint-Memmie de Baconnes

Baconnes, a garden village labeled 4 flowers, is a point of tourist interest in the champagne region. The Saint-Memmie Church, which dominates the village, is one of its jewels.

Dated from the 12th century, built in a Romanesque style, it has among other things a bell of 400 kg datinf back to 1508. It is raised on an artificial mound overhanging the fortified plain village, which rises to approximately 3.50 m above the river.

From 1850, campaigns to restore the church began, as the...