Saint-Valery-sur-Somme No. 2 / La Montagne-sur-Somme / Leuconaus / Port-Somme / Saint-Wary

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carte postale Saint Valery sur Somme, Ruines de l'ancienne Abbaye"

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view of church exterior in context

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Planche gravée du 17ème siècle représentant l'abbaye de Saint-Valéry-Sur-Somme, dans le livre Monasticon Gallicanum. Bibliothèque nationale de France"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20529VAL
Church/Chapel: Ancienne église abbatiale Saint-Valery [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Walaric [aka Gualaric / Valery de Leuconay / Walric]
Church Location: location of the ruins: 1 rue des Processions, 80230 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located between Le Crotoy (N) and Estrébœuf (S), on the Soome estuary
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d’Amiens
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: 13thC church of a Benedictine abbey (originally founded 615, the oldest monastery in the diocese of Amiens; destroyed bu Vikings in the Carolingian period; favoured by William the Conqueror and Henry II of England); destroyed by in Louis XI in 1475; altered 16th, 17th and 18thC; sold after the Revolution -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116271]: "ruines de la magnifique église du 13e siècle (bas-côté sud de la nef, chapelle absidale st Nicolas)"
[NB: we have no information on the font of the abbey church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.188889, 1.630556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 11′ 20″ N, 1° 37′ 50″ E