Churches and monasteries to film in France
10 of them, 6 with a photo and 2 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them.
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Abbaye de Beauport
Church & monastery
Ruined 13th century abbey on the shore near Paimpol with a roofless church, vaulted cellar, chapter house, refectory over the sea and salt marsh grounds.
Abbaye de Daoulas
Church & monastery
Romanesque abbey at Daoulas with a 12th century cloister, church, fountain and a walled medicinal plant garden on a sloping site.
Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-Thierache
Church & monastery
A Benedictine abbey founded in 945 in Saint-Michel-en-Thierache, rebuilt several times, with a 17th century baroque facade, a central cloister, an abbey church, a chapter house and a refectory.
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Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
Church & monastery
Abbey stacked on a tidal rock, with a Romanesque nave, Gothic cloister and refectory, crypts, undercrofts and a treadwheel, above the bay sands.
Abbaye du Relec
Church & monastery
Cistercian abbey in the Monts d'Arree with a plain 12th century church, ponds, mill and open moorland around the monastic buildings.
Chartreuse de Neuville
Church & monastery
A former Carthusian monastery near Montreuil-sur-Mer, restored around cloistered gardens, run by an association that rents out its halls for events alongside its heritage and cultural programme.
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Abbaye de Fontenay
Church & monastery
Cistercian abbey founded in 1118 in a wooded valley, with a plain unlit church, cloister, dormitory, forge, bakehouse and gardens, and no modern building in view.
Seen in: Angelique marquise des anges, Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Enfant des loups, La Marquise des ombres
Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud
Church & monastery
Former royal abbey near Chinon founded in 1101, with a Romanesque church, medieval kitchens and cloisters plus an on-site hotel, its own site publishing information for film and TV shoots.
Couvent du Pouy
Church & monastery
A 19th century convent on the edge of Dax, empty for over a decade, with a chapel, cloister galleries around a courtyard garden, and rooms and offices on three floors, listed by the regional film commission.
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Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Church & monastery
Dominican priory finished by Le Corbusier in 1960 on a slope near Lyon, with raw concrete cells on pilotis, a bare church, ramped cloisters and coloured light wells.
Churches and monasteries elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in France
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- Transport and infrastructure 20
- Film studios and backlots 14
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 15
- Houses and apartments 12
- Hotels and interiors 8
- Castles and estates 14
- Villages and countryside 8
- Modern architecture 8
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