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The Church of Virgin Mary is a three-aisle basilica church (the nave is higher than the aisles) with large separated chancel closed by five-side apse. It was erected in the second half of the 14th century and enlarged in 1500s. The church was partially damaged during II World War and rebuilt in 1948. In 2003 the spire and dome of the church tower were reconstructed.
More valuable monuments in the temple are pulpit coming from late Renaissance made in 1609-1630 by master from Słupsk, Paweł Waltersdorf and funded by the guilt of amber-processors (with 43 members at that time). The pulpit is covered with bass-relieves, richly ornamented polychromed and gilded. The entrance to the pulpit is embraced by a portal (the lock in the door comes from 1609). Marvelous, first final of the pulpit, the so called amber crown from the first half of the 17th century was taken away during II World War. Worth attention are also hanging candelabra – some Baroque from the 18th century, some Neo-Rococo from the 19th century – as well as numerous Baroque candlesticks form the 17th-18th centuries and later from the 19th 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).