Feet and Dates at Charlieu
Elizabeth R. Sunderland
THE EXISTING foundations and buildings of the former monastery at Charlieu in ancient Burgundy present a complicated mixture structures built remodelled different periods. Dates have been assigned to various parts on rather fragile basis documentary stylistic evidence (Fig. 1).1 The ninth-century church has dated c. 872 A.D. because that is foundation date its architectural masonry style direct importation from lower Loire valley near Tours. Refugees (some are known fled Burgundy) raid Normans could responsible for structure.
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