Jumièges

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Jumièges (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated in a meander of the river Seine, some Template:Convert west of Rouen, at the junction of the D 65 and the D 143 roads. A ferry service operates here, connecting the commune with the south and west sides of the river.

Heraldry

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Demography

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Places of interest

The church of St. Valentin, dating from the eleventh century.^[1]
The ruins of the tenth-century church of St.Pierre (part of the abbey)^[2]
An eighteenth-century chapel.^[3]
Several lesser buildings dating from the eleventh century.

Jumièges Abbey

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". It is best known as the site of Jumièges Abbey, a typical Norman abbey of the Romanesque period, and the home of the pro-Norman chronicler William of Jumièges who wrote the Gesta Normannorum Ducum about 1070. Ruined in the first quarter of the 19th century, the abbey dates from the 7th century.^[2] The church of Notre Dame was consecrated in 1067 in the presence of William the Conqueror.^[4]