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Lessay is a small town in the centre of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It was founded as a monastery but a town grew up around it over the years. The 10th-century Lessay Abbey is one of the greatest examples of Romanesque architecture in Normandy. It was largely destroyed by fighting in the town during July-August 1944, but has been rebuilt.
Lessay is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Angoville-sur-Ay was merged into Lessay.
But Lessay, above all, innovates by introducing the revolutionary covering of tracery vaults so, here, from the end of the 11th century, is one of its first uses, well before the development of rib vaults by Gothic architects. The decoration of the capitals is sparingly reduced to simple crockets and flat leaves to promote unity, the regular.
Saint-Germain-sur-Ay Saint-Germain-sur-Ay is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
This is a list of Benedictine monasteries, extant and non-extant, in the present territory of France. It includes both monks and nuns following the Rule of Saint Benedict, excluding the Cistercians, for whom see List of Cistercian monasteries in France. Some monasteries however belonged at various times in their histories to both the Benedictines and the Cistercians.
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Saint-Germain-sur-Seves is situated in the Manche department and Normandy region, in the north of France at 24 kilometres from Saint-Lo, the department capital (general information: Saint-Germain-sur-Seves is 274 kilometres from Paris).
