Nantes, France
1207
Angers, France
9th century
Saumur, France
10th century
Montreuil-Bellay, France
11th century
Laval, France
10th century AD
Clisson, France
11th century
Le Lude, France
13th century
Brissac-Quincé, France
11th century
Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, France
12th century
Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes, France
11th century
Brézé, France
1060
Montsoreau, France
1455
Pornic, France
12th century
Tiffauges, France
12th century
Saint-Symphorien, France
1761-1786
Soulaire-et-Bourg, France
1468-1472
Mayenne, France
778 AD
Commequiers, France
14th century
Apremont, France
13th century
Châteaubriant, France
11th century
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).