Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville, Romanesque abbey in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, France

The Abbey of Saint-Georges is a former Benedictine monastery whose abbey church is almost entirely Romanesque. Its light-grey stone facade is flanked by two square towers with slender spires and a clock in the central gable, above three rows of tall arched windows and a round-arched carved portal. Behind, a tall slate spire rises over the church, with a lower angled wing and corner turret beside it.

Guillaume de Tancarville, chamberlain of King Henry I, expelled the secular canons in 1113 or 1114 and founded the Benedictine abbey, settled by monks from Saint-Evroult. Abbot Louis built the church and claustral buildings from 1114 to 1157; his successor Victor raised the cloister and chapter house, where his brass abbot's crozier was found. A papal bull of Honorius III in 1225 ended Saint-Evroult's claims of control.

The abbey takes its name from Saint George, to whom the earlier collegiate church was already dedicated before the Benedictines arrived. The abbots adopted the coat of arms of their Tancarville and later Harcourt and Orléans-Longueville benefactors, and these arms can still be seen in the church. In 1412 the abbot Guillaume-Étienne obtained the right to wear a mitre and carry a crozier.

The abbey church, cloister and chapter house are classified historical monuments, the church since the 1840 list. Volunteers of the association Chantiers Histoire et Architecture Médiévales took part in restoration work in 1987 and 1988. The chapter house holds the tomb of Abbot Victor, abbot from 1157 to 1211.

In 1235 the church's original timber roof frame was replaced by a Gothic vault, so a Romanesque shell encloses a later Gothic covering. The abbey's founder, Guillaume de Tancarville, was chamberlain to King Henry I of England, who granted the abbey the port of Bénouville.