Sainte-Trinité) is an 11th century Romanesque Benedictine Abbey church located in Lessay, Manche, France, then in Normandy. The abbey is one of the most important...
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Lessay (French pronunciation: [lɛsɛ]) is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Angoville-sur-Ay...
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Lessay Airport (ICAO: LFOM) is a regional airport in Lessay, Normandy, France. It supports general aviation with no scheduled commercial airline services...
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crosses from east to west from just north west of Saint Lo and east of Lessay and marks a natural border with the rest of Manche. The largest town on...
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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Rib vaults of Durham Cathedral (1135–1490) Choir of Lessay Abbey in Normandy (1064–1178) Vaulted ceiling of Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily...
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Contact 94 was a radio station that broadcast from Lessay in Northern France to Normandy and the Channel Islands between September 1988 and November 1991...
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Priory was founded for three Benedictine monks, and was a dependency by the Lessay Abbey in Normandy. In about 1126, upon the marriage of Robert's daughter...
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example of that type of chateau. The confident church architecture such as at Lessay and Bayeux has left its mark on the landscape, as well as an artistic legacy...
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were made of small cut pieces of stone, rather than rubble. The Romanesque Lessay Abbey in Normandy added early Gothic rib vaults in the choir in about 1098...
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Mont Saint-Michel. On 14 July 1080 he witnessed a charter to the Abbey of Lessay (in the diocese of Coutances), another in the same year addressed to Remigius...
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lodgments, and keep the U.S. First Army from launching an attack towards Lessay-Périers that would cut off the Cotentin Peninsula. Carentan was defended...
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foundation of Thetford Priory and, in Normandy, to the Benedictine abbey of Lessay that his father had supported. When Stephen became king in 1135, William...
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André (1895). Rivarol, sa Vie, ses Idées. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. Lessay, Jean (1989). Rivarol, le Français par Excellence. Paris: Perrin. Matyaszewski...
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confirmation of goods given by Henry, King of England and Duke of Normandy, at Lessay. In June 1944, during the Battle of Villers-Bocage, Orbois castle housed...
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627. The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, was given to the Abbey of Lessay in Normandy in 1105 and later passed to Boxgrove Priory. There is an elaborate...
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French) Lessay, Franck (1999). Figures de la royauté en Angleterre: de Shakespeare à la Glorieuse Révolution Par François Laroque,Franck Lessay - Notice...
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1908, at a similar time as the Condé-Granville tramway and the Coutances-Lessay metre gauge railway. These lines were operated by the Société des Chemins...
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1174 – Monreale Cathedral begun. 1175 – Sainte-Trinité Abbey Church in Lessay begun. 1175 – Soissons Cathedral begun. 1175–1176 – Wells Cathedral begun...
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at a similar time as the Granville-Avranches-Sourdeval tramway Coutances-Lessay metre gauge railway. Both lines were operated by the Société des Chemins...
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1386 - 1410 : Pierre Le Roy, former abbot of Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, and of Lessay 1410 - 1444 : Robert Jollivet 1444 - 1483 : Guillaume d'Estouteville 1483...
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Westminster. Herluin died on 26 August 1078; at his side was Roger, abbot of Lessay. His funeral was presided over by Gilbert Fitz Osbern, Bishop of Évreux...
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consecrated. c. 1063 – Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen, Normandy founded. 1064 Abbey of Lessay, Normandy begun. Duomo of Santa Maria Assunta in Pisa, Tuscany begun. 1065...
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Romanesque architecture Top: Lessay Abbey in Normandy (France); Middle: Collegiate Church in Tum (Poland); Bottom: Maria Laach Abbey (Germany) Years active...
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Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 26 (2018), pp 113-148 The Abbey Church of Lessay (Manche) and Romanesque Architecture in North East England, The Antiquaries...
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the 12th century or earlier: in 1105 it was granted by Robert de Haye to Lessay Abbey in Normandy. Its dedication to St Leodegar, the 7th-century bishop...
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northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune of Lessay. Communes of the Manche department Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble...
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(50236) Heugueville-sur-Sienne (50243) Laulne (50265) Lengronne (50266) Lessay (50267) Marchésieux (50289) Le Mesnil-Garnier (50311) Le Mesnil-Villeman...
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Lessay France Lessay (GRI 6731) Sylt (GRI 7499) shut down 49°8′55.27″N 1°30′17.03″W / 49.1486861°N 1.5047306°W / 49.1486861; -1.5047306 (Lessay -...
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Saint-Martin-d'Aubigny, Normandy, and hence brother both of Richard d'Aubigny, monk of Lessay, abbot of St. Albans (d. 1119), and of Roger d'Aubigny, father of William...
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fuel and ammunition dumps. Between 16 and 26 August, the 323d moved to Lessay Airfield in France, the main movement of aircraft taking place on the 26th...
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