Dedicated to Saint-Léger, bishop of Autun (feast day on 2 October), the church probably did not yet exist in 1120, when the bishop of Langres gave the churches of Ormancey and Rosières (a "village" that has disappeared between Marac and Ormancey) to the Abbey of Saint-Etienne in Dijon.
It was probably after the destruction of the "village" of Rosières and its church in the early 13th century that the first parish church of Marac was built on its present site as a branch of Ormancey, with a 13th-century Romanesque choir flanked by two small barrel-vaulted chapels and a bell tower at the entrance to the choir, all covered in stone. The upper parts of the church were partially burnt down at the very beginning of the 18th century when lightning set fire to the roof timbers, and a century later, in 1803-1804, the church tower was raised by six metres by the local council. But the church, already weakened by the previous fire and by the excessive mass of the new bell tower, which had been left uncovered for an entire winter, was to see the bell tower collapse on the church in the spring of 1804, bringing down the choir and part of the side chapels, destroying all the furniture and liturgical ornaments in the process, as well as the bells, which had been cast just three years earlier!
Having meanwhile become a parish in 1803, with Faverolles as its branch, the bell tower was restored in 1819 in the form of a 15.62 m high porch tower, and the current church was completely rebuilt between 1825 and 1828 in the neo-classical style.
Eglise Saint-Léger de Marac
