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France – Val de La Loire – Abbaye de Fontevraud – Les Cuisines

The Kitchen was built between 1160 and 1170, on the southwest corner of the cloister, in the continuation of the refectory.The kitchen contains eight chapels, five of which are still preserved. It is based on a square rising from each side in slightly broken arc, completed by an octagon whose every angle consists of an engaged column. Each side of the octagon houses a small apse, each of three open bays and hosts a hood. Through a system of tubes, the square arch supports a central fireplace.The exact destination of the kitchen is debatable. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc offers in his Dictionary of French architecture, a theory about the evacuation of smoke through the various fireplaces, assuming that each apse was used as foyer. The art historian Michel Melot hypothesis proposes the use of the building as fumoir

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