1000 years of history and architecture

Name: 1000 years of history and architecture
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Logis de Moullins

Guided tour, by the owners and members of the association of the Friends of the Medieval Domain of Moullins of: the Great Medieval Hall (1300 - 1320, Video of the 3D restitution), the ground floor...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

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Guided tour, by the owners and members of the association of the Friends of the Medieval Domain of Moullins of: the Great Medieval Hall (1300 - 1320, Video of the 3D restitution), the ground floor of the abbatial dwelling (1508), the chapel Ste Catherine (1514) and German paintings in the North Gate (1946-7). Exhibition of medieval ceramics. Photo exhibition of 40 successive years of restoration work.

About the location

Logis de Moullins

Le Logis Abbatial de Moullins 72600 Saint Rémy-du-Val

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Pays de la Loire

The estate of Moullins is given by Hugues II, count of Maine to the abbey mancelle de la Couture, by chartre dated between 968 and 991\. The domain will host successively:
* A convent priory from about 990 until the second half of the 13th century, with 10 choir monks and a prior; part of the community goes back around 1180;
* A palatial residence of the abbots of Coûture built around 1300-1320 whose markers are the aula, the camera and the capella, neighboring but disjointed buildings; it was burnt down in 1418 by the invading army of Henry V;
* A new residence whose main components are then the manor house, the dovecote tower and the chapel. Its sponsor, Abbé Michel Bureau (1496-1518), demoted the old aula, reduced to its stone shell, to the rank of a simple tithe barn. The last residence reached us, but also the aula of 1300, large medieval reception room