Visit
Visit of the priory/ town hall
16 and 17 September 2023Passed
Conditions
Free entry
@Mairie de Foussais-Payré
Visit of the priory/ town hall
Built from the 11th century, the priory depended on the abbey of Bourgueil, in Touraine, and sheltered Benedictine monks until the Revolution before becoming private property.
Rebuilt in the fifteenth at the same time as the church, it was very damaged by the wars of religion. It was fortified in the second half of the sixteenth, then enlarged and embellished internally, in the seventeenth. Two of the four very beautiful chimneys bear magnificent ornaments, in particular the arms of the prior.
Purchased by the municipality in 1980, the priory houses the town hall since 1982.