Guided tour of the Romanesque church and the monks' cemetery

Name: Guided tour of the Romanesque church and the monks' cemetery
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Église et cimetière des moines

Discover the church on a guided tour, with its Romanesque capitals, its 15th-century buffet and the tomb of Saint Geoffroy, the 13th-century reliquary shawl, as well as the lower chapel and …

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free of charge. Free admission.

©OTI du pays de Saint Yrieix

Discover the church during a guided tour, with its Romanesque capitals, its buffet of the fifteenth century and the tomb of Saint Geoffroy, the reliquary shrine of the thirteenth century as well as the lower chapel and its frescoes.
Then take part in a presentation of the monks' cemetery, its turbulent history and enjoy a journey among the eighty tombstones from the 12th to the 15th century.

About the location

Église et cimetière des moines

Le Bourg, 87500 Le Chalard

Haute-Vienne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Chalard is a site of the Road of Richard Cœur de Leo. A priory was based(established) by saint Geoffroy there at the end of the 11th century. At the bedside(In the support) of the church the old(former) "Cemetery of the monks is" which includes about forty medieval headstones sculpted of the 12th and 15th centuries.