Explore the historic highlights of Highland
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
c. 1250
Highland, United Kingdom
13th/19th century
Highland, United Kingdom
1897-1901
Highland, United Kingdom
1746
Highland, United Kingdom
1590
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
16th century
Highland, United Kingdom
300-0 BC
Highland, United Kingdom
3000 BC
Highland, United Kingdom
1905-1917
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
2000 BC
Highland, United Kingdom
2000 BC
Highland, United Kingdom
16th century
Highland, United Kingdom
300 BC
Highland, United Kingdom
12th century
Highland, United Kingdom
1660-1665
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
c. 1460
Highland, United Kingdom
12th century
Highland, United Kingdom
200 BC
Highland, United Kingdom
c. 1600
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
13th century
Highland, United Kingdom
18th century
Highland, United Kingdom
1620
Highland, United Kingdom
16th century
Highland, United Kingdom
15th century
Highland, United Kingdom
15th century
Highland, United Kingdom
c. 1200
Highland, United Kingdom
17th century
Highland, United Kingdom
300-100 BC
Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey. It was founded in about 1113 by Guillaume de Tancarville on the site of an earlier establishment of secular canons and settled by monks from the Abbey of Saint-Evroul. The abbey church made of Caumont stone was erected from 1113 to 1140. The Norman builders aimed to have very well-lit naves and they did this by means of tall, large windows, initially made possible by a wooden ceiling, which prevented uplift, although this was replaced by a Gothic vault in the 13th century. The chapter room was built after the abbey church and dates from the last quarter of the 12th century.
The arrival of the Maurist monks in 1659, after the disasters of the Wars of Religion, helped to get the abbey back on a firmer spiritual, architectural and economic footing. They erected a large monastic building one wing of which fitted tightly around the chapter house (which was otherwise left as it was).