Prieuré Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Marast

English translation

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History

Founded around 1120 by the Augustinian abbey of Chaumouzey (Vosges), the priory is attested from 1123 in texts. In the 12th century there existed the church and at least one other building to the south-east of which some remains survive. Commendary was introduced in the 15th century. After 1520, important works were carried out. At least three blocks of building were constructed: the porch followed in return by the prioral dwelling of L-shaped plan. From 1611 to the Revolution, the priory was attached to the collegiate church of Dole. Sold as national property, it subsequently served as a minor seminary (1809-1812), then as a college of the brothers of Sainte-Marie (after 1835). These uses were accompanied by important transformations: the church lost its aisles and its eastern chapels. The buildings were sold again at the time of the separation of Church and State, and integrated into an agricultural holding. The priory comprises a forecourt preceding a building pierced at its centre by a porch, followed in return to the east by another which delimits a courtyard, itself closed by a wall and an agricultural building to the south. The old terraced garden is located to the south-east. The former cloister courtyard, now disappeared, was located to the north-east. This is bounded to the north by the church, and to the east by the remains of a 19th-century shed, continued to the south by the former quarter of the religious, in ruins.