NOTRE-DAME D'OURSCAMP ABBEY
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A former Cistercian abbey with a medieval abbey church, a site that invites meditation in Chiry-Ourscamp.
With a beautiful light, you will appreciate the charm of this ruined abbey. Enough stones remain to allow the imagination to reconstruct the abbey virtually. The place invites to meditation and forces the respect. Plundered during the Hundred Years' War, transformed into a spinning mill in the 19th century, damaged by French shells in 1915, the former Cistercian abbey was not spared! Of the abbey church of the Middle Ages, only a part of the choir and the transept remain. Better preserved, the conventual buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries, which cannot be visited, bear on the pediment the bear that Saint Eloi would have made work. In the Gesvres wing, the brothers of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus and Mary, who restored the abbey to a religious function in 1941, live. Also worth seeing is the large 13th century chapel where services are celebrated, a former infirmary and "room of the dead": the Cistercian monks assisted their dying brothers there, laid down, according to tradition, on a layer of ash in the shape of a cross. The romanticism of this site is due in part to a beautiful insertion program. The monks have employed more than 300 people in integration. In 2019, the abbey even received the national "Heritage Employment" award from the Heritage Foundation. This restoration process has already allowed the restoration of the stained glass windows and the roof of the large chapel, the medieval frescoes and the walkways.
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Members' reviews on NOTRE-DAME D'OURSCAMP ABBEY
On se plait à imaginer ce qu'elle fut dans le temps et à rêver au temps passé !
the guided tour makes us rediscover the site until today