Fontenelles Abbey

Overview of the abbey remains from the south

Fontenelles Abbey or Les Fontenelles Abbey (French: Abbaye des Fontenelles; Abbaye Notre-Dame des Fontenelles;[1] Latin: Fontenellae, Fintanelum, Fontenacum or Fontenaeum)[2] was an Augustinian monastery in the former commune of Saint-André-d'Ornay (incorporated into La Roche-sur-Yon in 1964), in the Vendée, France.

  1. ^ Yves Blomme, L'abbaye Notre-Dame des Fontenelles, pp153-159, in Congrès archéologique de France - 151e session - Vendée - 1993, Société française d'archéologie, Paris, 1996
  2. ^ Abbé Jacques-Paul Migne, Dictionnaire des abbayes et monastères etc., Paris, 1856, page 303

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