Notes on a trip to Normandy, Maine and Brittany, with some prints and a map of Auray
Reference code
FOW/01/22
Title
Notes on a trip to Normandy, Maine and Brittany, with some prints and a map of Auray
Date
1881
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 notebook
Scope and content
Diary of travels in Normany, Main and Brittany, with visits to Saint-Lô (Notre Dame, Palais de Justice, Museum), Constances (Cathedral, St Pierre), Bayeux (Cathedral), Caen (St Pierre, Abbeye aux Dames, Hospital), Avesnieres/Laval (Cathedral, Castle), Auray (including St Anne d’Auray and Chartreuse), Kermoz, Ile-aux-Moines (megaliths at Kergonan).
Includes:
* notes on local customs, accommodation and food, as well as churches visited and observations on the pilgrims and ‘beggars’ on the road from St Anne d’Aunay;
* drawings of screen from village church near Laval;
* printed matter including indulgence card from Avenieres, souvenir card from St Anne d’Auray, and map of Auray;
* photograph of the sanctuary of St Anne d’Auray.
Includes:
* notes on local customs, accommodation and food, as well as churches visited and observations on the pilgrims and ‘beggars’ on the road from St Anne d’Aunay;
* drawings of screen from village church near Laval;
* printed matter including indulgence card from Avenieres, souvenir card from St Anne d’Auray, and map of Auray;
* photograph of the sanctuary of St Anne d’Auray.
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary