Tour-en-Sologne, France
1527-1537
Haute-Goulaine, France
12th century
Sarzay, France
14th century
Château-Renault, France
1140
Ainay-le-Vieil, France
14th century
Meillant, France
1510
Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
1520
Saché, France
16th century
Durtal, France
15th century
Bellegarde, France
1355-1388
Culan, France
12th century
Ancenis, France
15th century
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire, France
16th century
Saint-Patrice, France
18th century
Gizeux, France
14th century
Blain, France
13th century
Oizon, France
ca. 1500
Le Cellier, France
1643-1649
Champtocé-sur-Loire, France
c. 1075
La Riche, France
1463
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).