Sigournais, France
15th century
Blain, France
13th century
Avrillé, France
1555
Montmirail, France
15th century
Lassay-les-Châteaux, France
15th century
Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France
1868
Le Cellier, France
1643-1649
Champtocé-sur-Loire, France
c. 1075
Les Herbiers, France
15th century
Fontenay-le-Comte, France
1580-1590
Val-du-Layon, France
13th century
Guérande, France
14th century
La Chapelle-Glain, France
1495
Gorges, France
1335
Gennes-Val-de-Loire, France
1520-1546
Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, France
16th century
Fercé-sur-Sarthe, France
15th century
Moutiers-les-Mauxfaits, France
1578
Tuffé-Val-de-la-Chéronne, France
15th century
Montaigu-Vendée, 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).