Monastery Tourelles, Montpellier
This
monastery is made between 1931 and 1939, and is built for the Dominican monks
and nuns of Montpellier: It was a so-called double-monastery. The church in the
middle of the complex would be the central building, with at the one side the
monks, and on the other side the nuns. But only the front of the monastery is actually
built. On the photo you see this front, as seen from behind, clearly you can
see the building should have three wings: The middle part would be the church.
Dom Bellot
build here in a mediteranean style, with white walls. Only at the windows you
can recognize Dom Bellot. In the cloister colored bricks were used, also
typical Bellot. Dom Bellot succeeded again to build in the surrounding style.
In order to
make a motorway this monastery was demolished in 1986.
We do not
have photo's of this monastery. These pictures are taken from the book "Dom
Bellot, moine-architecte"