TheAbbatiale Saint-Silvin and Saint-Georges testifies to the long monastic past (Benedictines about 670-881, then Benedictines 1072-1791) of the village long named Auchy-les-Moines. Most of the interior elements of the abbey church are classified as historical monuments and the building is inscribed there. The pillars of the nave date from its foundation at the 12th century. Very vast at its peak, in the 13th and 14th centuries, then victim of the conflicts of the 15th and 16th centuries, the abbey church was almost in ruins around 1600. In the second half of the 17th century it was rebuilt in its current dimensions. The furniture that one can see nowadays in the central nave (monks' stalls, woodwork and choir retable, high altar, organ) was there installed between 1680 and 1720. Above the high altar a "Descent from the Cross" is attributed to Van Dyck (1599-1641) or at his workshop. The altars of the lateral naves, the stained glass windows, the Stations of the Cross, the baptismal fonts, date from the second part of the 19th century. There are also:

• the tombstone of Count Enguerrand d'Hesdin, founder of the abbey in 1072
• a commemorative plaque of French lords and knights killed at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) and buried in the abbey. The visit is free and documented Information available to visitors on the history of the abbey church, its architecture, its treasure, the classified objects, the stained glass windows, the liturgical vestments

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62770 Auchy-lès-Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France