Paris, France
1763
Bordeaux, France
1730-1775
Saint-Émilion, France
12th century
Lyon, France
0-100 BC
Nancy, France
1756
Bordeaux, France
1820
Èze, France
14th century
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Middle Ages
Tours, France
Yvoire, France
14th century
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France
806 AD
Bordeaux, France
18th century
Guérande, France
15th century
Minerve, France
9th century AD
Manosque, France
14th century
La Couvertoirade, France
12th century
Chartres, France
9th century
Ainhoa, France
11th century
Vichy, France
17th century
Tarn, France
10th century AD
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).