[1] The Priory is now maintained by “Les Amis du Prieure Saint Michel de Grandmont”, a non-profit-making association.

A hut-dwelling community of hermits began to develop around him, and they soon built a church, and living quarters as their numbers grew.

This became the hub to more than 160 smaller monasteries, inhabited by more than 1500 hermits, of which, the Priory of St Michel de Grandmont at Lodève was one.

After the French Revolution, the priory passed into the hands of a local merchant family, who developed it as a home, and agricultural estate.

The group of buildings includes a church, a Romanesque cloister surmounted by a pinnacle, and a chapter house and cellar.