First a Collegiate Church under the protection of the first Countess of Aumale, William the Conqueror’s sister, the abbey reached its heyday during the 12th and 13th centuries. During the French Revolution, the abbey church and numerous buildings were destroyed.
There is only an elegant round brick tower from the early 16th century that remains from the prestigious past of the abbey as well as a long monastic building, which has kept the exterior from its last restoration made by the...