Francueil, France
1515-1521
Amboise, France
15th century
Villandry, France
1532
Azay-le-Rideau, France
1515-1527
Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
1465-1510
Chinon, France
12th century
Rigny-Ussé, France
1440s
Langeais, France
1465
Loches, France
13th century
Monts, France
1499-1508
Montrésor, France
1493
Céré-la-Ronde, France
1460
Lémeré, France
1445
Lavardin, France
11th century
Luynes, France
12th century
Château-Renault, France
1140
Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
1520
Saché, France
16th century
Saint-Patrice, France
18th century
Gizeux, France
14th 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).