Senlis and Royaumont (January 2018)
Cathedral
Notre-Dame of Senlis:
This cathedral was built in the second
half of the 12th century. The transepts and the side portals were rebuilt in
the mid 16th century after a fire.
View from behind the former episcopal
palace, which now hosts the Museum of Art and Archeology.
North portal. The small timber-framed
house with pink bricks on the right is an old library.
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Interior.
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Stained-glass windows.
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Royaumont Abbey:
Founded in 1228 by King Louis IX, then
aged 14 and future Saint Louis, it is the 599th Cistercian abbey. After the
French Revolution its monks were expelled and it was converted into a cotton
mill. In 1863 it returned to religious life. During the 1914-18 war it was used
by the Red Cross and became the Scottish Women′s Hospital at Royaumont. In 1964 its owners donated the monument to the
Foundation Royaumont. Today, it is the best-preserved
former Cistercian abbey in the Ile-de-France region.
View of the abbey from the entrance of
the park: latrine building on the left, monks′ building in the middle,
and 36-m high church tower on the right. The church that stood on the right of
the monks′ building was dismantled during the French Revolution and used
as a stone quarry.
The cloister gallery and gardens.
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The monks′ kitchen.
The monks′ refectory and some of
its circular stained-glass windows.
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The lay brothers′ refectory.
The 9-square garden adjacent to the
monks′ kitchen and refectory hall (only the latter is visible in the
photo).
Left: tombstone of Petronille,
wife of Knight Reli de Mareuil
(1280). Right: Polychrome oak statue of the Suffering Virgin (16th century).
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Gilded and polychrome wooden statues of
saints (16th century).
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