Jumièges
Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
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 Script error: No such module "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
Demography
<templatestyles src="Module:Historical populations/styles.css"/>Script error: No such module "Historical populations".
Places of interest
- The church of St. Valentin, dating from the eleventh century.[2]
- The ruins of the tenth-century church of St.Pierre (part of the abbey)[3]
- An eighteenth-century chapel.[4]
- 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.[3] The church of Notre Dame was consecrated in 1067 in the presence of William the Conqueror.[5]
People linked with the commune
- Maurice Leblanc, writer.
- Roger Martin du Gard, writer.
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Template:Base Mérimée
- ↑ a b Template:Base Mérimée
- ↑ Template:Base Mérimée
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Navbox".