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I am again back at you with new older found pictures in my vault and they should be in my blog. This is a wonderful monument in an off the beaten path city of my lovely Bretagne in my belle France. Of course, Redon is in Ille et Vilaine dept 35 .  As I mentioned the town before, see my several posts on it.  Let me tell you again a bit on the Abbey Church Saint Sauveur of Redon !!!  Hope you enjoy this post as I.

Overlooking Quai St Jacques stands the former abbey of Saint Sauveur de Redon, one of the most important in Brittany in the Middle Ages. It was established there by St Conwoïon in 832 with the support of Nominoë future 1st king of Brittany. The Church abbey is located at 17, 19 place Saint-Sauveur in city center  

It has a magnificent Romanesque tower and an isolated bell tower with a stone spire from early 14C, which would have been doubled if the facade had been completed. The steeple originally belonged to a monumental façade project designed around 1310, which was to be placed in front of the ancient Romanesque nave. The north tower is the only element that is actually built. The work is probably completed before 1341. It is also the most prestigious Romanesque monument in Brittany.

The choir is from early 14C. Since the 14C, the bell tower, perched 67 meters, has been separated from the rest of the abbey. The Abbey Church Saint Sauveur has an imposing stained glass windows, medieval frescoes, a 17C altarpiece and a 15C polychrome wooden Virgin are all to be discovered. The main corp was built in the 11C, the nave has three ships. It is currently seven spans long, but the initial construction was longer and extended to be twelve. The five western bays were destroyed due to a fire in 1780. The ancient façade, known by a 17C engraving, was a single gabled wall at the triangular summit, supported by buttresses at angles. The elevation of the central nave initially included two levels with large arcades. Only the arches in full hanger, whose single roll falls on stone cut simply beveled. These stones rest themselves on very thin and united capitals, carved to give a Doric style to the set covered with plaster. The capitals crown half-columns backed with square piles, which are their predecessors. The north aisle wall of the nave, the north transept, and the base of the southern collateral are partly constructed in small cubic units, with flat stone bases and spur chains.

The four piles of the lower level of the transept crossing probably date back to the 11C. The Crusader tower was built during the 12C. It has three levels. A reconstruction of the bedside begins between 1260 and 1270, and ends at 1300, at least for the big work. It comprises three straight bays, then a five-part apse, all surrounded by an ambulatory with five radiant chapels. On either side of the first spans of the ambulatory, two aisles of three bays accommodate rectangular chapels. The whole is vaulted with quadripartite warheads. In the middle of the 15C, Duke Jean IV added to the bedside a Chapel, leaning on the north side of the choir.

The Abbey Church Saint-Sauveur is one of the parts of the Saint-Sauveur Abbey, the rest of the consensual buildings became a high school. The Church is located on the north side of the Abbaye Saint-Sauveur, in the immediate vicinity of the city/town hall. In 1649, Cardinal Richelieu, had the buildings rebuilt In the 20C, the Eudist congregation bought the buildings to found a college, today a Catholic high school under contract with the State. The organ is on the Chapel of the school The Eudist founded a college in 1839, which now became a Catholic high school under contract with the state. The high school site is here for reference as it uses some of the property of the Abbey today .https://www.lycee-saint-sauveur-redon.eu/saint-sauveur/#fondation

The city of Redon on its architectural gems like the church : https://www.redon.fr/tourisme/p26-patrimoine-architectural.html

The local South Brittany tourist office on the abbey church: https://www.visitsouthbrittany.com/abbey-town

The friends of the abbey association : http://www.amisdelabbatiale.fr/en/history/

The Bretagne region tourist office on Redon: https://www.brittanytourism.com/destinations/the-10-destinations/brittany-loire-ocean/the-redon-marshes/

There you go folks, another curiosity wonder of my lovely Bretagne, which been a peninsula is much away and seldom seen, but I am telling you been in many places of our world and this is a find indeed. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Abbey Church Saint Sauveur of Redon !!! as I

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!