Hôtel de ville (ancien) , dit Maison des Drapiers · Photo: Rauenstein · CC BY-SA 3.019 historic monuments, 17 classé
Marville’s oldest monuments date from the 10th century. 5 of Marville’s monuments are in our photos.
Marville in 5 photos
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CimetièreClassé
Église Saint-NicolasClassé
Maison dite du Chevalier MichelClassé
Hôtel d'Egremont (ancien)Classé+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Where Marville’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 1 monument has no point on the map.
17 classé monuments in Marville
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 13 of the 17 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
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Classé2 inscrit monuments in Marville
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
Most of Marville’s monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes: 12 of 19 monuments (63%). 1 is a religious building, 1 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once.
How old Marville’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
3 of 10 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Ancienne enceinte urbaine (13th c.). 9 monuments have no date on the list.
Over half of Marville’s monuments were protected in 1931
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
First protected, in 1920: Église Saint-Nicolas. 11 were protected in 1931 alone. 1 has been added since 2011.
32% of homes in Marville were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
32% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished before 1919 than in any other period (32%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
Historic monuments in the towns around Marville
Marville in brief
The record in Marville starts with Ancienne enceinte urbaine, which dates from the 10th century. In all there are 19 historic monuments, 17 of them classé, including Hôtel de ville (ancien) , dit Maison des Drapiers. Of its homes, 32% were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town. Ancien refuge de l'abbaye d'Orval sits at the heart of it all, with 13 of the town’s classé monuments within 400 m. In 2020 the Mission Patrimoine picked Hôtel d'Egremont (ancien) as a monument in danger to save.
Of the whole list, 63% are houses and homes. Of the 10 with a date, 7 come from the 16th to 18th centuries. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Gustave d'Egremont (1831) was born here before 1900.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Marville
How many historic monuments are there in Marville?
The Culture ministry lists 19 historic monuments in Marville: 17 classé and 2 inscrit.
Which monuments in Marville are classé?
17, among them Église Saint-Nicolas, Ancien refuge de l'abbaye d'Orval, Maison dite du Chevalier Michel, Maison dite du Prieur de Saint-Hilaire -Saint-Nicolas, Cimetière du Mont-Saint-Hilaire and Hôtel d'Egremont (ancien).
How old are the monuments of Marville?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 10th century.
When were monuments in Marville first protected?
The first in 1920, the latest in 2015.
How old are the homes in Marville?
32% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.