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 Church Holy Sepulchre by wandeljp
Classified Historic building. The church was batie at the 15th century, the bell-tower and the transept was rebuilt in the neo-gothic style in 1864. The church having been partially destroyed in 1940 in its high part, of work were carried out recently. The whole of the stained glasses of this church was conceived by Alfred Manessier. This artist born in 1911 in the Sum passed his childhood to Abbeville and is regarded as one of the largest nonfigurative artists. The Setting with the Tomb in the Vault of the Holy Sepulchre, on the left, deserves a visit. Only the lying one of Christ is old (statue out of wooden of the 15th century) the characters who surround it are posterior and of a very different invoice. Directions: city center
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 The Gate of the Vault by wandeljp
Only remain the gate of the vault and part of the frontages of the cloitre of pure style Louis XIII.En 1642, the Good Sisters settled in these establishment built according to plans' of Mother Anne of Saint-Paul. Preserved at the time revolutionist it became in 1869 the Saint-Stanislas college until 1905. It was then during a few years a barracks annexes then in October 1925 the college of girls Jules Ferry.To requisition became a military hospital in 1939 it was almost entirely destroyed on May 20, 1940. Address: City center
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 Statue of Godefroid
(side) by wandeljp
On its site, Godefroy de Bouillon in 1096 with the invitation of Count GUI 1st of Ponthieu would have gathered its barons before leaving in crusade for the Holy Land.
On the pic , you see the statue of Godefroid de Bouillon ( a Belgian , you know!) remebering the event.
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 Water-tower of the park by wandeljp
Today the park open to the public counts more than one ten rare species among which Liriodendron Tulipifera or Tulipier of Virginia, Laburnum Alpinium, Liquidambar Styraciflua, Gingko Biloba, the Sequoia Giganteum, the Cedar of Lebanon… majority of these trees being old of more than 150 years. In the private mansion, the City installed successively the Museum of Abbeville and Ponthieu, the Town hall during the last war until 1960 then the Public library. This one is one of oldest of France. Founded in 1643 by the canon Jean de Boulenois, old principal of the college, it shelters more than 160000 volumes, an important collection of watercolours of Oswald Macqueron, incunables and some manuscripts remarkable.
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 entry by wandeljp
Property at the 19th century of the family of Abbeville: Foucques d' Emonville. Arthur Foucques d' Emonville botanist and collector of camellias made build in 1861 within Mr. Lefuel, the architect of Louvre, a private mansion called of Emonville and some greenhouses essential to his plantations. With its death its nephews sold the property at the town of Abbeville. One of the greenhouses assigned to the municipal service of the plantations probably dates from Foucques.
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 MANUFACTURE by wandeljp
(oar = frame maintaining the parts of fabric wet and tended in order to rectify them and to give them a width everywhere equalizes) Gate of style Louis XVI. In the middle of the 17th century, Colbert, the large minister of Louis XIV, being afflicted with the export of the French wools in England from where they returned woven, invited a Dutch industrialist of Middelburg, Josse Van Robais to install his trades with Abbeville in October 1665.
There were in this city a very old tradition of manufacture of cloths and gifts the presence of a very qualified labour. Moreover the presence of many rivers the washing of wools, their .also dyeing etc had allowed from time immemorial the use of mills whose driving force was essential.
This building was bought by the city to shelter a museum there but is not currently visible with the public. Directions: We were very lukky this day. Normaly you can see anything coz the buildings where restaured for the moment and public haven't acces. But there was poeple working and we saw the inside market.
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 Museum Boucher de Perthes
(2) by wandeljp
Jacques Boucher of Crèvecoeur de Perthes was born in Rethel in 1788 and died in Abbeville in 1868. He is regarded as one of the founders of Prehistory.
It is in Abbeville with the “Bench of the Hospital” Vauban boulevard currently that was discovered by him the first paleolithic axe on July 23, 1844.
The museum occupies the buildings remaining of the old Town hall of Abbeville and a modern building built in withdrawal. Objets d'art and medieval sculptures whose retable of the 15th century a money virgin of the 16th century, ceramics, tins and tapestries are exposed there. One notices the polychrome sculpture of Saint-Gengoulf, owner of the misled husbands and his wife undergoing the ordalie. Among other works, a statue of Camille Claudel “the Prayer” or “Psalm”. Paintings of the 16,17 and 18th century are represented there.
The prehistoric collections are centered on the discoveries of Stopping of Perthes and the sites of the Valley of the Somme.
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 BELFRY AND THE MUSEUM
BOUCHER OF PERTHES (1) by wandeljp
Built since 1209, the Belfry, one of oldest of France, are a 20 meters height quadrangular tower whose walls are at their base 2,30 meters thickness. The unit is closer to the seigneuriaux keeps of the 12th century than of the elegant belfries of the 14 and 15th centuries. The tower of the belfry close to the enclosure of the city was used as turn of guet until construction of the towers of Collègiale Saint-Vulfran. It is capped with a surmounted high-bell-tower of frame of a wind vane representing the Count de Ponthieu with horse. Its austere appearance contrasts with the character more decorated with the Treasury built in 1467-1468. On the turret of staircase, with the angle of the Belfry and Treasury, a low-relief of Emmanuel Fontaine was posed in 1887. It commemorates the heroism of Abbevillois Ringois thrown to the sea in 1368 to have refused to lend oath of fidelity to king Edouard d' Angleterre.Détruit during the bombardments of May 1940, the Belfry was restored (work completed in 1986)
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 The castle by wandeljp
Mr. Lefuel, the architect of Louvre, a private mansion called of Emonville and some greenhouses essential to his plantations.
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 by wandeljp
Although not completed this one is one of the most remarkable monuments of Gothic style blazing being combined here with the central gate Renaissance.
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