Abbaye de Cormery, Benedictine abbey in Cormery, France.

The Abbaye de Cormery is a former Benedictine abbey on the left bank of the Indre in Cormery. Its surviving parts are scattered among later buildings: the Saint-Paul tower, the former bell-tower porch of the abbey church, a Gothic chapel of the choir, a largely preserved but much altered refectory and a section of the cloister gallery. The abbey church itself is reduced to fragments.

The abbey was founded in 791 by Ithier, abbot of Saint-Martin in Tours, and received abbey status in 800. This connection to Tours remained crucial to the establishment's development throughout its history.

The name Cormery, recorded as Cormaricus in 791, is of uncertain origin; one hypothesis links it to the cormier, the service tree. Local tradition, reported in the abbey cartulary, says Ithier withdrew here in penance with a "cor moerens" (grieving heart), a phonetic explanation linguists reject. In the chapel of Saint-Symphorian, a wall painting showing three faint figures was uncovered above a walled-up niche in the south wall.

The remains are scattered through the town centre along rue de l'Abbaye, between the Indre to the north and the D 943 to the west, so they are best found on foot. The former cloister floor now lies only about 3.50 m above the average level of the Indre. Several fragments are private property or belong to the commune, and the sacristan's dwelling is not protected as a monument.

The refectory building survived the French Revolution and subsequent renovations, preserving rare examples of medieval monastic architecture. This survival makes it an important record of how monks lived during that era.