Abbey of Beauport in Brittany
The abbey of Beauport is located near the ocean (its compound in the late Middle Ages included a harbor) on the northern coast of Brittany.
Founded around 1200 as an abbey of regular Premonstratensian (isn’t that one a mouthful?) canons, it is mostly Gothic and therefore outside of my preferred scope of interest architecturally. However, building an abbey in Brittany in the very first years of the 13th century implied some degree of faithful adherence to the old ways of doing things, as we will see...
Underneath the refectory, I found what looked like the oldest surviving part of the abbey, this cellar with archaic columns and very deep rib vaulting. There wasn’t a lot of light and I had to use my little tripod for a one-second exposure.
Abbey of Beauport in Brittany
The abbey of Beauport is located near the ocean (its compound in the late Middle Ages included a harbor) on the northern coast of Brittany.
Founded around 1200 as an abbey of regular Premonstratensian (isn’t that one a mouthful?) canons, it is mostly Gothic and therefore outside of my preferred scope of interest architecturally. However, building an abbey in Brittany in the very first years of the 13th century implied some degree of faithful adherence to the old ways of doing things, as we will see...
Underneath the refectory, I found what looked like the oldest surviving part of the abbey, this cellar with archaic columns and very deep rib vaulting. There wasn’t a lot of light and I had to use my little tripod for a one-second exposure.