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    Lessay (French pronunciation: [lɛsɛ]) is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Angoville-sur-Ay...
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    Sainte-Trinité) is an 11th century Romanesque Benedictine Abbey church located in Lessay, Manche, France, then in Normandy. The abbey is one of the most important...
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  • Lessay Airport (ICAO: LFOM) is a regional airport in Lessay, Normandy, France. It supports general aviation with no scheduled commercial airline services...
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    crosses from east to west from just north west of Saint Lo and east of Lessay and marks a natural border with the rest of Manche. The largest town on...
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  • Contact 94 was a radio station that broadcast from Lessay in Northern France to Normandy and the Channel Islands between September 1988 and November 1991...
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    Juvigny les Vallées Lamberville La Lande-d'Airou Lapenty Laulne Lengronne Lessay Lestre Liesville-sur-Douve Lieusaint Lingeard Les Loges-Marchis Les Loges-sur-Brécey...
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    Romanesque architecture Top: Lessay Abbey in Normandy (France); Middle: Collegiate Church in Tum (Poland); Bottom: Maria Laach Abbey (Germany) Years active...
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    Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Rib vaults of Durham Cathedral (1135–1490) Choir of Lessay Abbey in Normandy (1064–1178) Vaulted ceiling of Cefalù Cathedral in Sicily...
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    were made of small cut pieces of stone, rather than rubble. The Romanesque Lessay Abbey in Normandy added early Gothic rib vaults in the choir in about 1098...
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    Rib-vaults were employed in some parts of the cathedral at Durham (1093–) and in Lessay Abbey in Normandy (1098). However, the first buildings to be considered...
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