Visit of a Romanesque priory in Saintongeais

Name: Visita de un priorato románico saintongeais
Start: 2024-09-21T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Prieuré de Sainte-Gemme

Discover the Romanesque priory of Sainte-Gemme, the church, the buildings of the monks. Also find 3D films on its evolution and collections of medieval and ethnographic sculptures.

21 i 22 septiembrePassed

©Gemme le Prieuré

Visit to the Romanesque priory: the church and the monks buildings, the cloister and the eastern remains of the church.
Visit to the Anne Audier museum, with ethnographic collections and medieval sculpture.
The evolution of the monastery is explained with films from 3D animation.

About the location

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