The church of Maing is one of the oldest in the Valenciennes region. It is first documented in the 11th century, in a charter from the Bishop of Cambrai (Manassés), placing the Maing altar under the patronage of the Abbey of Saint-Aubert in Cambrai.
In the 12th century, it would have been built in sandstone, on a rectangular plan, in the Romanesque style (a window is still visible). The sandstone base of the porch and that of the nave arcades are therefore the oldest parts of the church. The church is home to some exceptionally fine funerary furnishings (funerary slides). Jeanne de Valois, Countess of Hainaut, and her daughter, Isabelle de Namur, were reburied here in 2011. They were exhumed in 1977 from the remains of the Fontenelle abbey church, where they had retired and died in 1352 and 1360.
In the 12th century, it would have been built in sandstone, on a rectangular plan, in the Romanesque style (a window is still visible). The sandstone base of the porch and that of the nave arcades are therefore the oldest parts of the church. The church is home to some exceptionally fine funerary furnishings (funerary slides). Jeanne de Valois, Countess of Hainaut, and her daughter, Isabelle de Namur, were reburied here in 2011. They were exhumed in 1977 from the remains of the Fontenelle abbey church, where they had retired and died in 1352 and 1360.
