Abbeys, Monasteries and Priories in Normandy

Prieuré
61130 Dame-Marie

The Prioral Enclosure of Dame-Marie, dating from the 14th century, is a former Priory located in the Orne, Normandy, including church, house and gate.

Abbaye
14400 Saint-Vigor-le-Grand

The Abbey of Saint-Vigor-le-Grand, founded in the 6th century and rebuilt in the 13th century, is a former Norman priory located in Calvados, Normandy. Its medieval remains bear witness to a rich monastic history.

Abbaye
76000 Rouen

Sainte-Catherine-du-Mont Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey of the 11th century, dominated Rouen in the Seine-Maritime. Founded by Gosselin de Rouen, it was destroyed in 1597 by order of Henry IV, after playing a major military and religious role in Normandy.

Eglise gothique
14320 Saint-André-sur-Orne

Saint-Étienne de Fontenay Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey of the 13th and 18th centuries, is located in Saint-André-sur-Orne, Calvados. Classified as a historic monument, it bears witness to a rich medieval and modern past in Normandy.

Abbaye
14680 Bretteville-sur-Laize

The former Abbey of Notre-Dame de Barbery, founded in the 12th century, is a cistercian abbey in ruins located in Bretteville-sur-Laize (Calvados), marked by medieval history and remains of the 13th and 18th centuries.

Prieuré
14700 Noron-l'Abbaye

The Priory of Noron-l'Abbaye, founded in the 11th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 14th centuries, is a former monastery located in Calvados, Normandy. Registered as historical monuments since 1928.

Eglise romane
14440 Douvres-la-Délivrande

The priory of Tailleville, founded in the 13th century in Dover-la-Delivrande in Normandy, is an ancient monastery whose chapel, dedicated to Saint Martin, bears witness to medieval architecture with its arches in warhead and its listed bell tower-arch.

Abbaye
61200 Argentan

The Abbey of Notre-Dame d'Argentan, a former Benedictine abbey of the twelfth, fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, stands in Argentan, Normandy. Its remains, protected since 1986, bear witness to Norman Romanesque art and to a rich monastic history marked by destruction and rebirth.