Saint-Magloire Abbey of Léhon
The Saint-Magloire abbey of Léhon is an old monastery of monks Bénédictin S whose foundation would go back to IXe century and would be due to the king of Breton the Nominoë. From this period, no vestige remains.
The Abbaye was rebuilt during the end of XIIe and XIIIe centuries. The church, old abbey, presents a frontage with a gate dating from the any end of XIIe century, a great nave with single vessel glaze of convex ribbed vaults, dating from XIIIe century (vaults remade with XIXe), it ends in a flat bedside restored in XIVe or XVe century.
The vault of Beaumanoir, current sacristy, date also of XIVe century. Inside the nave are preserved the lying ones (tombs) of the Beaumanoir family of XIVe and XVe centuries as well as a carved stoup dating from the end of XIIe or XIIIe century.
Around the cloister entirely remade at the XVIIe century by Mauristes, are the conventual buildings: in the East old chapter rooms and dormitories on the floors, remade them also with XVIIe. They shelter today at the ground floor the reception of the abbey as well as a museum where the double capitals of the primitive cloister of XIIe century are in particular preserved. On the floor a cell of monk was reconstituted and the big rooms shelter exposures of artists regularly, on the last level are the roofs of XVIIè preserving a frame in the shape of exceptional hull of boat.
At North, the abbey preserves its refectory of the first quarter of XIIIe century giving on the gardens in edge of Rancid, it was also modified during XVIIe and was the object of restorations of the historic buildings between 1987 and 1991, it one of the rare witnesses of the refectories of this period is still as well preserved (large Gothic bays with trefoil rubble fillings, capitals with the reasons for sheets, murals, old kitchens XVIIe). Below existed the storerooms, now filled ground, but an access to summer put at the day starting from the gardens, one discovers vestiges of the Romance period there.
The abbey (buildings and gardens) is visited all the year for the groups on reservation and the summer (July and August) the every day it is opened with the public.
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