Travel Reference
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The church features a doorway with Visigothic sculptures decorating it; these predate the
first attack, and the pristine condition they are in makes them an important historical hot-
spot (“Visigoths” were a member of the western Goths that invaded the Roman Empire
in the fourth century A.D. and settled in France and Spain). The interior is also a large
draw for visitors, with its outstanding Romanesque architectural style. The tomb of the man
thought to have originally founded the monastery, Wilfred II, is housed within the chapter
house.
