Hermance is an old border town on the shores of Lake Geneva,
with a beautiful view of the right bank and a small marina. The
Église Saint-Georges replaced an old wooden church probably
built by Aymon II of Faucigny in 1247 against the wall, between
the town’s two boroughs. In the late thirteenth century, Aymon’s
granddaughter, Beatrice de Faucigny, had a stone church larger
than today's building built against the enclosure, commensurate
with the size of the new town. The three windows of the choir
are remnants of this construction. The smaller nave and the bell
tower were rebuilt in 1679, using some of the old walls. The
bell tower received a new crown, with bulb and pinnacle, in
1836, and the site was excavated and restored between 1971 and
1974. The funeral chapel of the Visitation, a fine example of
rural Gothic architecture that was built in 1471 for Isabelle de
Menthon, was restored between 1953 and 1955. (Département des
travaux publics et de l'énergie / Service des monuments et des
sites. Répertoire des immeubles et objets classés. Chęne-Bourg /
Geneva: Georg, 1994, pp. 136-137)
