Prieuré de Sainte-Gemme
3 rue du Prieuré, 17250 Sainte-Gemme
- Charente-Maritime
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sainte-Gemme is the first and most important priory belonging to the Auvergne Abbey of the Chair-Dieu in the former diocese of Saintes. Guy-Geoffroy Count of Poitiers and Duke of Aquitaine gave the Casadic monks a place inhabited for a long time.
A church, about sixty meters long and of great height, is erected since the end of the eleventh century and during the twelfth century. The enclosure of the monastery included the buildings of the monks, built at the beginning of the twelfth century and an important economic zone, today occupied by the village. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the priory houses about twenty monks of choir and the superior is one of the notables of the Casadian family.
The Wars of Religion left the priory in ruins and at the Revolution the monastery was sold as national property, from now on, we live and work in the buildings of the monks, we open shops.
The former priory keeps remarkable elements. Its Romanesque church, reduced to its nave, is prece
Tags
Monument historique, Édifice religieux, Lieu de culture, spectacles, sports et loisirs
Access
The priory of Sainte-Gemme is about 25 km from Saintes, Rochefort and Royan, on the D122\. Parking at 50m.
©Gemme le Prieuré
