Name: ND de l'Assomption church and monks' cemetery
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Le Chalard

ND de l'Assomption church and monks' cemetery

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Le Chalard

ND de l'Assomption church and monks' cemetery

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Location: Le Chalard, Limoges, New Aquitaine, France

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1. River Isle Hike

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August 24, 2021

The church was built from 1088 by St Geoffroy. There he founded a monastery of canons of the order of St Augustine, of which he was the prior. The pure Romanesque style church is built with massive blocks of hewn granite.

To discover inside: Roman granite capitals, a 15th century buffet housing the tomb of St Geoffroy, the shrine which contains the relics of the Saint ...

At the apse of the church is the "Monks cemetery". It is a unique collection of 12th and 15th century tombs. Some of them let us discover symbols representing the activities of the deceased. We find there the tomb of the prior, that of the weaver, that of the blacksmith ...

Source: Haute-Vienne Tourism

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Location: Le Chalard, Limoges, New Aquitaine, France

ND de l'Assomption church and monks' cemetery

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