Ancienne abbaye de la Sauve-Majeure

English translation

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History

Abbey founded in 1080. Romanesque remains of the cloister 1130-1140. Abbatial buildings 13th century, partly ruined by the Hundred Years War. Partial reconstruction by the Maurists, late 17th century. Prison from 1793 to 1795, then plunder and destruction of the monastery. Religious college from 1838 to 1858, with construction of the south wing and extension of the west wing. Normal school from 1860 to the fire of 1910. From the 1960s onwards, destruction of 19th-century buildings and consolidation of medieval parts. The west wing was built in the late 17th century on earlier buildings, reworked in the 19th century, burned in 1910. The eastern part, on which the refectory rested, preserves Romanesque structures. The 19th-century additions were erected on medieval structures. For the refectory, Romanesque vestiges and 13th-century reconstruction. The abbatial barn is a building of the 14th and 15th centuries, erected on earlier structures. The fountain of Saint Gérard is of very ancient origin. The enclosure walls were erected in the late 17th and early 18th century by the Maurists, on the site of the medieval enclosure. The garden contains the bases of numerous disappeared buildings (cloister...).