The Saint-Serge abbey church through the centuries, told and sung by the Maîtrise des Pays-de-la-Loire

Name: The Saint-Serge abbey church through the centuries, told and sung by the Maîtrise des Pays-de-la-Loire
Start: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Église paroissiale Saint-Serge - Ancienne abbatiale

Journey through the centuries of the abbey’s history

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Evocation of the abbey’s history in five theatrical scenes: the foundation of the abbey by Clovis II, the Veneration of the relics of Saint-Brieuc by King Henri II Plantagenêt and Aliènore d'Aquitaine, then the 100-year war, the Revolution and the Battle of Angers on 3 and 4 December 1793 and finally from 1905 to the present day.

About the location

Église paroissiale Saint-Serge - Ancienne abbatiale

Place du Chanoine Bachelot, 49000 Angers

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

On the site of the medieval abbey of Saint-Serge are read three essential architectural eras: the 12th century of the abbey, the Mauritian reconstruction of conventual buildings (with 2 cloister wings), a 3rd cloister wing designed in the 19th century by architect Joly Leterme. It is in this last period that the chapel of the major seminary (major seminary which then occupies the whole of the former abbey) belongs. Joly Leterme takes up, for this last campaign, the Mauritian perspectives of the 18th-19th century; the monumental plan of the new chapel is thought in remarkable harmony with the new cloister wing: the interior volumes are those of"an immense cathedral choir in which the services are done with more pomp than in any other church". Rectangular nave preceding an apse of 5 steps; 4 bays of high vaults inspired by the Gothic Angevin... The whole cloister helps with the vaulted rooms, the sacristy and the chapel of the seminary are of a very obvious architectural quality whose es