Le Lude, France
13th century
Brissac-Quincé, France
11th century
Châteaudun, France
1170
Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, France
12th century
Montrésor, France
1493
Brézé, France
1060
Montsoreau, France
1455
Beaugency, France
12th century
Meung-sur-Loire, France
ca. 1200
Céré-la-Ronde, France
1460
Mehun-sur-Yèvre, France
13th century
Montrichard Val de Cher, France
12th century
Lémeré, France
1445
Soulaire-et-Bourg, France
1468-1472
Lavardin, France
11th century
Châteaubriant, France
11th century
Chilleurs-aux-Bois, France
16th century
Luynes, France
12th century
Cellettes, France
1545
Mazé-Milon, France
1772
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).