St. Martin's Abbey, Laon

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The former abbey church of St. Martin's, Laon

St. Martin's Abbey, Laon, was one of the earliest foundations of the Premonstratensian Order in about 1120. Along with Cuissy Abbey and Floreffe Abbey it counted as one the primarii inter pares of the order, or senior houses.

St. Martin's church, Laon

It was dissolved in the French Revolution. The church of St. Martin in Laon, dating from the middle of the 12th century, is still in use as a parish church. The former monastic buildings, after a variety of civil uses, are now used as the hospital.

Former monastic buildings of the abbey in use as a barracks, c. 1910

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

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