Beauport Abbey
Abbaye Saint-Budoc | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Abbey of St. Budoc |
| Other names | Abbaye de Beauport |
| Order | Premonstratensian |
| Established | March 13, 1202 |
| Disestablished | 1790 |
| Mother house | La Lucerne Abbey |
| Dedicated to | St. Budoc of Dol |
| Diocese | Saint-Brieuc |
| Controlled churches | 20 parishes in Brittany and England |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Alain de Goëlo |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Monument historique |
| Designated date | 1862 |
| Style | Gothic |
| Site | |
| Location | Rue de Beauport Paimpol, 22500 Côtes-d'Armor |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 3°01′14″N 48°46′03″E / 3.020633°N 48.767432°E |
| Public access | yes |
| Website | abbayebeauport |
The Abbey of St. Budoc (French: Abbaye de Saint-Budoc), commonly called Beauport Abbey, was a 13th-century Premonstratensian abbey in the region of Brittany known as the Pays de Saint-Brieuc (pays historique) (the Historical Country of St. Brieuc). It was a major institution in the economic life of the region, having sovereignty over both commercial and maritime trade, as well as its supervision of the spiritual life of the inhabitants of that province. Even after its devastation under the ravages of the French Revolution, its surviving structures soon came to recognized a generation later by the acclaimed writer and historian Prosper Mérimée as a major example of the architecture of its era. He began a call for its preservation, which continues to this day.