Beauport Abbey, the Abbey of St. Budoc, stands on Rue de Beauport in Paimpol, Brittany, and is open to the public. It was a Premonstratensian abbey in the Gothic style. Count Henri de Trégor established a canonry on the island of Saint-Riom in the 1170s. The canons moved to the mainland site of the old Beauport monastery, which Viking raids had ruined. Alain de Goëlo drew up the charter establishing the abbey on March 13, 1202.
The abbey controlled 20 parishes in Brittany and England, nine of them in the Diocese of Lincoln. An annual market at Paimpol, called Monks Fair, supported the canons.
It was secularized by decree in 1790, with 12 religious remaining. It was listed as a Monument historique in 1862, after Prosper Mérimée called for its preservation.
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