Ancienne abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame de la Clarté-Dieu

English translation

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History

Abbey founded in the middle of the 13th century by the bishop of Winchester, Pierre des Roches, whose family had connections with Anjou, Maine, Poitou and Touraine. The building has lost its abbatial church as well as part of the claustral buildings. Preserved are the converses' building, the refectory and the prior's pavilion.£ £The plan of the current cadastre allows one to recognise the enclosure wall, the north gate, the inner boundary wall, the gate and the south bridge, the dependencies, the converses' building, the foundation of the south wing of the refectories, the great classical pavilion and the hostelry building situated outside the enclosure. This latter, much altered, is called the chapel Notre-Dame or of the Strangers. A record allows one to date to 1733 the completion of the classical pavilion, of rectangular plan. Resting on ancient foundations, it comprises four levels and a high roof with four slopes, with a gable to the south bearing the arms of the abbey.