Ancienne abbatiale Saint-Pierre de Flavigny

English translation

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History

Abbey founded by a wealthy landowner at the beginning of the 8th century, represented in the "Monasticon Gallicanum" after its reconstruction by the Benedictines of Saint-Maur. The ensemble was divided up at the Revolution and the abbey church largely destroyed. Initially, the crypt known as that of Sainte-Reine and a lateral corridor of access to the south, of Carolingian period, are known. This ensemble is on two levels. A plan of 1655 allows the places to be reconstituted. A nave with three bays and narrow aisles leads to a hexagonal chapel comprising columns, some of which are trefoiled. Columns, pillars and capitals testify to modifications of the 11th century. Excavations carried out in the 1950s also allow the equivalent of the southern corridor to be uncovered to the north, and a mosaic to be removed.