Abbaye de Fontaine-Les-Blanches

English translation

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History

Cistercian abbey, founded around 1125 by a few monks withdrawn into the woods around a chapel, and which received its title of abbey in 1134 when Odon, abbot of Savigny and Hildebert de Lavardin placed it under the rule of Cîteaux. It was largely destroyed during the Revolution. Various elements of the abbey subsist. The north door of the 16th century. The abbot's lodging largely rebuilt in the 17th century, but which retains on the ground floor a hall of the 13th century, and a room preserving remnants of painting from the 14th century. A square pavilion of the 13th century built on three tiers of superimposed cachots, connected by trap doors. The pointed-arch door of the cellars. The west wing of the cloister assigned to the cellars. The ruined walls of the east wing of the cloister which extended to the south of the vanished church. A utility building of the 18th century.