Places of worship

The chapels

Two chapels within the walls of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre: one standing on its own in the park, the other within the conventual buildings.

The old abbey church has gone. Two modest chapels within the abbey grounds are used for worship today; prayer has begun again in them. They appear on the list of places of public worship submitted to the prefecture; the association has the liturgy celebrated in them and looks after them.

The chapel of Sainte-Lucie

It stands alone among the trees of the park, apart from the buildings. It is a nineteenth-century chapel of brick and render: a round-arched porch, a pediment edged with sawtooth brickwork, a bellcote with its bell, and above the door the arms of the abbey carved in stone.

Inside, a white vaulted nave and an altar of carved stone. About fifteen places.

Its walls were strengthened during a restoration training project of the Conservatoire du Patrimoine des Abbayes.

The chapel of Sainte-Lucie on an old postcard, “Mas-Grenier, Abbaye St-Pierre” — On an old postcard

Round-arched window with a brick surround — A window of the east end

Side of the chapel of Sainte-Lucie with its brick buttresses marked with a cross — The buttresses

Rear gable of the chapel of Sainte-Lucie — The east end

The chapel of Saint-Pierre

It lies within the conventual buildings. Vaults rest on slender columns, two round windows of stained glass light the far wall, and nineteenth-century wooden stalls run along the sides. In this choir the Benedictine nuns sang the Office, apart from the faithful, until 2014.

About forty places.

It adjoins the ground floor of building A, where the Saint-Michel House now is.

The history of the Benedictine nuns of Mas-Grenier

Vaults and columns of the chapel of Saint-Pierre — Vaults and columns

Saint Nicholas in glory, with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Lucy, Lorenzo Lotto, 1529. Santa Maria dei Carmini, Venice. image source — Public domain

Within the abbey

Polychrome Virgin and Child — Virgin and Child

Statue of Saint Benedict holding the Rule — Saint Benedict

Coloured stained glass in the half-light — Stained glass

The chapels are places of prayer. They are entered for the celebrations; to come at another time, it is enough to write. The history of the abbey is presented by the Conservatoire.

Where the chapels are

Within the walls of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 15 chemin de l’Abbaye, Mas-Grenier (Tarn-et-Garonne), between Toulouse and Montauban.

Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 15 chemin de l’Abbaye, 82600 Mas-Grenier · Open the map on OpenStreetMap