Abbey of Saint Bertin

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Saint-Bertin Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey, located in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), founded in the 7th century by the Bishop of Thérouanne as the Abbey of Sithiu. The remains of this ruined abbey are in Saint-Omer, Rue des Ruines Saint-Bertin. They were classified as a historical monument in 1840.

General provision of Saint-Bertin Abbey: The Saint-Bertin Abbey, located to the northeast of the city of Saint-Omer, from which it was isolated, took over the typical plan of the Benedictine monastery. Adorned by a wall of enclosure and bordered by streams, the Aa and the Haute-Meldick, it constituted a vast community complex divided into three spaces: regular places, peripheral areas and annexes. The abbey church was located in the heart of the monastery and all the buildings were distributed around it. The cloister on the south side of the church, sheltered from the cold winds of the north, presented four covered galleries around which organized the material and intellectual life of the monks. The south wing, a long seven-span vessel divided by a row of six batteries, the work of Abbé Gilbert, was a refectory. The west wing included...