Sainte-Croix Abbey and its 900 years of history

Name: Sainte-Croix Abbey and its 900 years of history
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye de Sainte-Croix

Despite its partial reconstruction around 1860, this 11th century monument is exceptional, both by the originality of its centered and cruciform plan, and by the richness and its architecture.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:00Passed

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Sainte-Croix Abbey and its 900 years of history
Despite its partial reconstruction around 1860, this 11th century monument is exceptional, both by the originality of its centered and cruciform plan, and by the richness and variety of its architecture and furniture. Detailed presentation by period (Romanesque crypt, Gothic statuary, Renaissance altarpiece, etc.).

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About the location

Abbaye de Sainte-Croix

Rue de La Paix, 29300 Quimperlé

Finistère
Bretagne

The abbey Benedictine of Sainte-Croix, based(established) in 1029, was in Middle Ages one of the richest in Brittany. It is the only church in Brittany to have a circular plan (Sainte-Croix clings to a clover(club) with a central rotunda). She(It) keeps(preserves) an important furniture: entombment of the beginning of the 15th century, retable of the 16th century, treasure of silver of the 16th in the 19th centuries, Christ dressed in the XVIIth century...