The Abbey of the Holy Trinity (French: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité) is an 11th century Romanesque Benedictine Abbey church located in Lessay, Manche, France, then in Normandy. The abbey is one of the most important Norman Romanesque churches, and, along with Durham Cathedral, one of the first examples use of the rib vault to cover the choir in about 1098. [2] This element became a key feature of Gothic architecture. The abbey was nearly destroyed in 1357. It was destroyed in 1944 and subsequently rebuilt.
^Base Mérimée: Ancienne abbaye, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
^Encyclopédie Larousse on-line, "Le Premier Art Gothique", Retrieved May 3, 2020.
The Abbey of the Holy Trinity (French: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité) is an 11th century Romanesque Benedictine Abbey church located in Lessay, Manche, France...
monastery but a town grew up around it over the years. The 10th-century LessayAbbey is one of the greatest examples of Romanesque architecture in Normandy...
(1135–1490). Others appeared in the deambulatory of the Abbey of Saint Denis in Paris (1140–1144), LessayAbbey in Normandy (1064–1178), Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily...
appearance. LessayAbbey, with its Norman lantern tower and at transept and semicircular chevet at the east end Rib vaults of LessayAbbey (1098), restored...
(1093–) and in LessayAbbey in Normandy (1098). However, the first buildings to be considered fully Gothic are the royal funerary abbey of the French kings...
Early rib vault in east end of LessayAbbey, Normandy (about 1098) (photo from before World War II) Nave of Vézelay Abbey, (1104–1132) with Romanesque groin...
are greatly outnumbered by churches. The most significant are the great abbey churches, many of which are still standing, more or less complete and frequently...
outside the walls. Église_Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in Poitiers (about 1130) LessayAbbey in Normandy (begun 1080), with a triforium instead of a tribune as the...
nineteenth century. Since then it has been argued that other buildings like LessayAbbey in north-west France provided the early experimental ribs that created...
also underway in Normandy in the late 11th and 12th centuries. In 1098 LessayAbbey was given an early version of the pointed rib vault in the choir. The...
communities[citation needed]. The rib vault with pointed arches was used at LessayAbbey in Normandy in 1098,, Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily and at Durham Cathedral...
abbey, museum or other property in the care of English Heritage. List of Cadw properties (Wales) List of Historic Scotland properties List of abbeys and...
was founded for three Benedictine monks, and was a dependency by the LessayAbbey in Normandy. In about 1126, upon the marriage of Robert's daughter Cecily...
disputed mill was awarded to the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. On 14 July 1080 he witnessed a charter to the Abbey of Lessay (in the diocese of Coutances)...
example of that type of chateau. The confident church architecture such as at Lessay and Bayeux has left its mark on the landscape, as well as an artistic legacy...
Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
abbot of Lessay. His funeral was presided over by Gilbert Fitz Osbern, Bishop of Évreux. The remains of Herluin can be seen in the abbey church, with...
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