Guided tour

Name: Visite guidée
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Église-Abbatiale Saint-Pierre

Enter the eventful history of Preuilly-sur-Claise by following the guide who will tell you about the origin of the construction of the abbey and will tell you about relations with the barons who marke

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Yolande Deberne

Enter the turbulent history of Preuilly-sur-Claise by following the guide who will tell you the origin of the construction of the abbey and will tell you about the relations with the barons who marked the place.
Discover the important characters who made the fame of the city, by reading stained glass windows and anecdotes told in the notebooks of the Poterne.

À propos du lieu

Église-Abbatiale Saint-Pierre

Place de l'Abbaye 37290 Preuilly-sur-Claise

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

The Monastery was founded in 1001 by Baron de Preuilly Effroy and his wife Beatrix d'Issoudun. The current Saint-Pierre abbey was built in the 1140s on a vast Benedictine plan: nave, aisles, transept, chevet surrounded by its ambulatory with radiant chapels. The bold party of an architecture called "in the market" gives a very airy and luminous internal volume. The monument is also remarkable for the richness and profusion of the capitals, many of which are authentic and of great finesse. Also noteworthy are the elegant transept stands. The important restoration campaign of the nineteenth century marked the monument without altering its overall beauty, it is particularly visible on the bedside and with the tower of the bell tower, rebuilt following its collapse in 1867, and surmounted by an incongruous arrow covered with glazed tiles. Conventual buildings remain, in particular, two arcades supported by a double colonnade, the remains of the 12th century cloister and the chapter hall co