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Photographer’s Note

July 15 2009
Sablonceaux 170307 17600
Charente-Maritime Poitou-Charentes
45.720 -0.888 31 m

Augustinian abbey, Sablonceaux.

One sight.
Other sight.

Abbey of regular canons of Saint-Augustin, the 12th 14th 18th 19th centuries, founded around 1135 per Guillaume X, duke of Aquitaine and count de Poitou, father of Aliénor of Aquitaine, and by the archbishop of Bordeaux Geoffroi de Loroux. Classified historic building in 1905.

The Notre-Dame church, at the Romanesque origin with single nave with three cupolas, preceded by a narthex, now associates only one Romance cupola with a Gothic bell-tower, and a Cistercian flat bedside.
At the beginning of the 19th century it was modified, losing part of its nave, and forming a plan in Greek cross.

This abbey undergoes very many destroying episodes: conflicts between Plantagenêts and Capétiens, the One Hundred Year War, wars of religion, the French revolution.

Sablonceaux is a french commune, located in the department of the Charente-Maritime of the Poitou-Charentes area, populated of 1023 Sablonçonnais in 1999, distributed out of 22 km², that is to say 46 hab./km².

My images of Sablonceaux.

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