Professor Stephen Bann, a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor of Art History, University of Bristol. From the early 1820s, interest in the French heritage of medieval church architecture developed apace. In part because of its early history under the English crown, Normandy was a favored place for the study of such monuments. The Abbey of St Georges de Boscherville, near Rouen, was regarded as a particularly perfect specimen of the Anglo-Norman style. This lecture traces the diverse ways in which it was evoked and described in a variety of contemporary print sources, and leads to some general hypotheses about the morphology of such images of architecture in the Romantic period.