# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, French]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The fine abbey church that towers over the island has an imposing 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque nave and an elegant choir in Flamboyant Gothic style \(built 1450–1521\). The tower and spire, crowned by a statue of St. Michael, were added in the 19th century. The church is built over three crypts, the oldest dating probably from Carolingian times \(8th–10th century\). The church had a polygonal ambulatory built over a gigantic substructure crypt, but, because of the sloping terrain, the ambulatory had no chapels. There was also a transept. The eastern parts were modified in the late Gothic style. All the piers are identical and the bays are oblong. One arch in the arcades corresponds to two gallery arches, each of which has double openings and one slender clerestory window above. The wooden barrel vault here look out of place above the nave. The photo shows the nave of the abbey church. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Bird's eye view]() - [Burial lantern]() - [Castle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()