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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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 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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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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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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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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Juvigny les Vallées Lamberville La Lande-d'Airou Lapenty Laulne Lengronne Lessay Lestre Liesville-sur-Douve Lieusaint Lingeard Les Loges-Marchis Les Loges-sur-Brécey...
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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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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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Rib-vaults were employed in some parts of the cathedral at Durham (1093–) and in Lessay Abbey in Normandy (1098). However, the first buildings to be considered...
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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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million, making it, proportionally, the nation's greatest best-seller ever. Lessay, Jean (1987). L' Américain de la convention: Thomas Paine, professeur de...
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secular college before 1066 Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Lessay founded c.1117 by Robert de la Haye (Haya), Lord of Halnaker; became denizen:...
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lodgments, and keep the US First Army from launching an attack towards Lessay-Périers that would cut off the Cotentin Peninsula. Carentan was defended...
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Mont-Saint-Michel LFRF GFR Granville - Mont Saint-Michel Aerodrome (UAF) Public Lessay LFOM Lessay Airport Public Vauville LFAU Vauville Aerodrome Restricted 51: Marne...
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Gothic appearance. Lessay Abbey, with its Norman lantern tower and at transept and semicircular chevet at the east end Rib vaults of Lessay Abbey (1098), restored...
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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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The Priory was founded for three Benedictine monks, and was owned by the Lessay Abbey in Normandy. Bramber Castle Castle 1070 Ruins A Norman motte-and-bailey...
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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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nineteenth century. Since then it has been argued that other buildings like Lessay Abbey in north-west France provided the early experimental ribs that created...
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Lessay Abbey, an example of Romanesque architecture...
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there is no airfield in the vicinity of the town. The nearest is that of Lessay, and for an airport, to join that of Caen-Carpiquet, Cherbourg-Maupertus...
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/6: Hauptmann Emil Priekschat (Mont-Castre) 2./6: Hauptmann Rolf Mager (Lessay) 3./6: Hauptmann Horst Trebes (Rougeval) 243rd Infantry Division: Genlt...
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Normandy founded. Greensted Church, Essex, England, built. 1064 – Abbey of Lessay, Normandy begun. 1065 – St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne consecrated. 1066...
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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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Juvigny les Vallées Lamberville La Lande-d'Airou Lapenty Laulne Lengronne Lessay Lestre Liesville-sur-Douve Lieusaint Lingeard Les Loges-Marchis Les Loges-sur-Brécey...
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fighting, 8 July. On 26 July, the 79th attacked across the Ay River, took Lessay, crossed the Sarthe River and entered Le Mans, 8 August, meeting only light...
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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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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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