Jumièges

Jumièges (ʒymjɛʒ) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France. A forestry and farming village situated in a meander of the river Seine, some west of Rouen, at the junction of the D 65 and the D 143 roads. A ferry service operates here, connecting the commune with the south and west sides of the river. The church of St. Valentin, dating from the eleventh century. The ruins of the tenth-century church of St.Pierre (part of the abbey) An eighteenth-century chapel. Several lesser buildings dating from the eleventh century. Jumièges Abbey It is best known as the site of Jumièges Abbey, a typical Norman abbey of the Romanesque period, and the home of the pro-Norman chronicler William of Jumièges who wrote the Gesta Normannorum Ducum about 1070. Ruined in the first quarter of the 19th century, the abbey dates from the 7th century. The church of Notre Dame was consecrated in 1067 in the presence of William the Conqueror Maurice Leblanc, writer. Roger Martin du Gard, writer.