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RESIDENCES OF THE ROYAL ABBEY OF NYOISEAU, 12th-17th-18th centuries - Winner of the Bern Mission Heritage Lottery - Heritage in Danger (IMH) - Extremely rare Romanesque cloister - In the heart of the village - 6km from Segré - 50km from Angers and Laval. Sale to benefit the municipality. Project leaders and enthusiasts welcome.
In the heart of the village of Nyoiseau, with its 1,300 inhabitants, the remains of this important Benedictine abbey for women, founded in 1109 by the hermit Salomon, emulator of Robert d'Arbrissel, founder of Notre-Dame de La Roë and Fontevraud, are currently in a state of peril. It is of exceptional documentary interest due to its Cartulary dating back to 1123.
The complex consists of:
- The 18th-century bursar's office, rectangular in plan, with a beautiful façade highlighted by a corbeled cornice, under a hipped roof, in perfect condition following a high-quality restoration to Historic Monument standards in 2012. Oak beam and joist ceilings, lime-plastered. Four rooms per floor on two levels. Superb early 19th-century oak roof structure, beneath which a museum of the history of the abbey and the town is housed, featuring many interesting old features, remains of the abbey, and explanatory panels. Oil-fired central heating. The building is currently used as a town hall.
- The 18th-century boarding school, a long building with a semi-buried ground floor and a first floor with two external stone staircases. Several finely molded openings, one of which houses a statue of the Virgin. Three 19th century dormer windows at the front, two beautiful dormer windows with triangular tuffeau pediments at the back. The interiors have retained their original features, including a very beautiful large room, the Saint-Georges room with a ceiling with oak beams and joists of beautiful sections, terracotta floors, a 16th-17th century fireplace with scrolled jambs, a lintel with a molded cornice, a hood decorated with a molded frame, a stone vegetable garden, a series of wooden columns in the middle of the room. This vast room of approximately 140m2 must have been used as a dormitory for the young girls whose education was entrusted to the nuns. Cellar on the garden level. Wall cupboard with original door leaf. At the end of the building, a room decorated with a very beautiful 18th century stone fireplace with a trumeau decorated with a spandrel frame topped with a rocaille cartouche applied to a beautiful cornice. Superb barrel vaulted roof structure.
- Remains of the very rare 12th-century Romanesque cloister. Recently restored. Presented by a section of wall decorated with three large semicircular arches with sandstone keystones alternating gray and red under the drip edge, this arrangement of alternating colored keystones is found in earlier periods, notably the Carolingian period at Saint-Philibert-de-Grand-Lieu, Corvey Abbey, and the Church of Saint-Pantaléon in Cologne, Germany; and at Saint-Servais in Maastricht during the so-called Classical period of Romanesque art (1070-1150). A drawing by Hawke from 1839 and by the architect Dusouchay from 1846 show that these arches were alternated with series of three small twin arches on columns and capitals; some remains are partially preserved in the lapidary deposit. Currently, half-engaged columns remain in the cloister wall, with capitals decorated with typically Romanesque applied leaves, reminiscent of those in the cloister of Fontenay Abbey, founded in 1119 by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Although still in ruins, this cloister still retains its symbolic power as a center of community life and a place of pilgrimage.
- A large tithe barn restored in 1674 on 13th-century foundations with a remarkable timber frame and walls adorned with powerful buttresses. Comprised of two levels, a partitioned ground floor, likely intended to house livestock until recently, and a first floor accessed by an exterior staircase under a charming canopy. A beam engraved with MIL within a heart and the date 1674 likely indicates the restoration date. This raised first floor was probably intended to protect crops from the flooding of the neighboring Oudon River. This barn is very similar in appearance and layout to the tithe barn of the Abbey of Saint Martin de Tours in Chenu, Sarthe, dating from the second half of the 13th century. Our barn has been under a roof for several decades.
- A small 20th-century school.
- Beautiful cloister courtyard, the site of archaeological excavations.
- Small garden with a beautiful old linden tree.
A stone repository with remains of great interest, including a Romanesque cloister column and capital, and a Baroque mascaron.
2959m² of land.
An exceptional documentary feature, the Cartulary of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Nyoiseau, retracing the life of the abbey from 1123 to 1743, is preserved; a superb perspective drawing of Nyoiseau Abbey by the Marquis de Geoffre is preserved at Fontevraud Abbey.
Listed as a Historic Monument in
- Mueble : Sin muebles
- Localización : NYOISEAU 49500
- Referencia : VM444
