A visiting guide

A visiting guide

 

Legend

1 Original doorway through the surrounding wall destroyed in 1808.
2 The “door chapel” dedicated to John the Baptist and St Front in 1147.
3 The Enclosed Spring (“Fons Cancellatus” which gave its name to the village).
4 First courtyard and wash house.
5 Pigeon house.
6 Entrance to the monastic buildings.
7 Lower courtyard.
8 Wine crushing vat (now private).
9 Horse stables (now private).
10 Mill and bakery.
11 Logis de Bourdeilles (now the presbytery).
12 Novices’ lodgings (demolished during the French Revolution of 1789).
13 Little courtyard (novices’ cloister, destroyed after 1789).
14 Library (destroyed after 1789).
15 Refectories and sleeping quarters (destroyed after 1789).
16 Cloister (destroyed after 1789).
17 Infirmary and warming room (destroyed after 1789).
18 Abbey church (built in 1129), dedicated to the Holy Virgin Mary and Mary-Magdalene
in 1146. Rebuilt in 1623.
19 Parish priest’s garden (thus named after 1793) where there used to be a big aviary.
20 The Logis Abbatial, remodeled five times between the 12th and the 17th centuries.
21 Little Romanesque style bridge built with salvaged materials from the former
cloister.
22 In the little garden, site of the Chapelle Ste Anne dedicated to Pope Clement V.
23 The brook which irrigated a flat stretch of farmland (vegetable garden, orchard…).
24 Yew alley, where the canons could take a walk, rest or meditate.
25 Formerly the Chapelle Notre Dame du Puyer ( or Puy, i.e. Hill).
26 Fishpond connected to the river Beauronne (partly hidden under the railway line).
27 The Abbey’s Court of Justice.
28 Blessed Alain de Solminihac Priory: the living quarters of the Chanoines Réguliers
de St Victor.