
Abbey
Mont St. Michel

the Abbey

gargoyles on the Abbey church
More Photos of the Abbey church

Fall 2006 mass schedule

Abbey monks


cloister

processions were held here during religious festivals


situated on top of a building called the Mervielle


refectoryry

where the monks took their meals in silence

while one of them read from the pulpit on the right

Guest Room

with its fireplace

and window

vaulted ceiling



window with the shell of Saint James


Notre Dame

great pillared crypt

floor design


Saint Martin crypt

the great wheel

added in 1820

to hoist provisions on this sled from below

the stairs which were the main access to the Romanesque monastery

Saint Michel