Chapter House and monastery bulding

Built after the Abbey church, the Chapter house dates from late 12th century. It was the Abbot Victor's work.

romanesque and gothic style This place offers several interesting aspects :

Built in a transition period between the romanesque and gothic style (romanesque openings out on the cloister, but vault key, broken arches inside still showing marks of pigmentation).
The fact that the vault rests on no central pillar.
Its rich decoration recounting scenes of the Old Testament (Josua, the collapse of the walls of Jericho, Moses, the sacrifice of Isaac...).
Finaly, the three statue-columns wearing ribbons commenting Saint Benedict's rule.

splendour of its remarkable two-colour stone ceilings monastery building The arrival of the Maurist monks in 1659 after the disasters caused by religion wars regenerated monastic life.
They erected a large building, one aisle of which covered the Chapter House (without damage), the opposite aisle sheltering the library, as these monks were erudits.
The central part of this building is the only left. Restored, it has recovered the splendour of its remarkable two-colour stone ceilings. This building, erected between 1690 and 1694 in the classical style was edged by the gardens commenced in 1680.

Chapter House and monastery bulding

Abbaye Saint Georges de Boscherville à Saint Martin de Boscherville