Places to see in ( Rouen - France ) St Maclou's Church
Places to see in ( Rouen - France ) St Maclou's Church
The Church of Saint-Maclou is a Roman Catholic church in Rouen, France which is considered one of the best examples of the Flamboyant style of Gothic architecture in France. Saint-Maclou, along with Rouen Cathedral, the Palais de Justice (also Flamboyant), and the Church of St. Ouen, form a famous ensemble of significant Gothic buildings in Rouen. Its spire reaches a height of 83 meters.
Construction on Saint-Maclou began sometime after 1435; it was to replace an existing Romanesque parish church that had suffered from several years of neglect resulting in a collapsed transept roof. In its place, master mason Pierre Robin created a basilica style church with four radiating chapels around an octagonal choir. The decoration of the church is macabre, beckoning back to the church's grim past rooted in the Black Death pandemic. The transept is non-projecting complete with piers that support the above lantern tower.
The choir is rather large in size for the structure and has two bays and four radiating chapels that branch off from the ambulatory. Overall, the plan places its emphasis on the transept which is midway between the choir and the nave. Saint-Maclou has the classic three-story elevation of an arcade, triforium, and clerestory. The famous western facade is towerless with five gabled porches with flying buttresses above the aisles that are attached to the western wall featuring a rose window.
The Church of Saint Maclou was built during the transition from the late Gothic period (15th - 16th century) to the Renaissance in the 16th century. The space above a portal within the arch is referred to as the tympanum. Typically, the tympanum is filled with sculpture of a scene alluding to Heaven and Hell. The tympanum of the main entrance of the Church of Saint Maclou displays Christ standing with his hands held out to people surrounding him, those to his right heading for Heaven and those to his left heading for the fiery pits of Hell.
This message, commonly depicted during the Gothic period, was designed to scare and evoke emotion from the public. The architectural plan of the church of Saint-Maclou includes radiating chapels. Saint-Maclou, like most Gothic churches, had many exterior stone statues; however, they suffered much of the French wars of religion, weather conditions, and pollution. Most inside statues disappeared during the French revolution. Nevertheless, the chapels inside had kept their wooden furniture and decorations made in the 18th century, but most of them were destroyed during the allied bombings in 1944. The church was partly damaged by the falling of two bombs. Concerning the Renaissance outside doors with their carvings and the Renaissance organ, they escaped destruction both during the French revolution and the Second World War.
The patrons of Saint-Maclou were of the wealthy merchant class that had experienced an immense social and economic growth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The family most closely associated with the rebuilding of the church was the Dufour family. The patrons were responsible for the selection of the master mason, Pierre Robin, as well as for part of the overall style of the church. The Dufours and others are cited as being the impetus behind the similarities between Saint-Maclou and Rouen Cathedral.
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Bach Concert at St. Maclou Church, Rouen, France
Bach being played in St Maclou Church, Rouen, France
Ancestral home of Anne LeSeigneur, fille du roi
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Places to see in ( Rouen - France ) Aitre St Maclou
Places to see in ( Rouen - France ) Aitre St Maclou
The aster St. Maclou is an old cemetery grave dating from the xvi th century , located 186 rue Martainville in Rouen in France . It is one of the rare examples of ossuary of this type remaining in Europe. The Saint-Maclou ale is classified as a historical monument by the list of 1862.
The Aitre Saint-Maclou takes its name from the old French aitre , having had the meaning of cemetery, from the Latin atrium , which designates the inner courtyard of entrance preceding the entrance of a Roman villa, where from extension the cemetery located before the entrance of the church; and St. Maclou parish, including the Church of the xv th century is situated nearby.
The Saint-Maclou cemetery dates back to the Black Death of 1348 . Following a new outbreak of plague in the xvi th century , it becomes necessary to increase capacity. The parish then decides to build galleries topped with attics, intended to contain the bones. The construction of the ossuary began in 1526 by the west gallery, under the direction of Guillaume Rybert. The north and east galleries are built during the years that follow, they are completed respectively in 1529 and 1533 .
The southern gallery was only completed in 1651 , following a legacy of Father Robert Duchesne, intended to house a school for poor boys in the parish, despite the still active use of the cemetery. The chapel Saint-Michel is erected by Pierre Daust in 1658 . The first schools date from 1661 for boys, from 1678 for girls. The statuettes of the columns are damaged in 1562 during the wars of religion .
In 1705, the school of charity, created in these places in 1659, is entrusted to the Brothers of the Christian Schools , founded in Rouen, by St. John Baptist de La Salle . The school is located between the chapel of the Trépassés and the chapel Saint-Michel.
In 1705, the bones stored in the attic of the galleries are removed. From 1745 to 1749 the galleries are enhanced and the roofs converted into real levels. 700 to 800 children attend the site xviii th century. The ground floor of the West Wing remains open and maintains its vocation as a link between Martainville Street and Géricault Street. The South wing is built for the accommodation of priests.
The ossuary consists of four galleries framing a central square; it's off 32 meters and a length of 48 meters. The first three galleries are made of timber on top of a stone base, the barrels of columns are carved decorations of the first Renaissance. The south gallery of the xvii th century , however, is devoid of bedrock and sculptures. The galleries are closed by partitions timber framed masonry and windows when building a floor xviii th century. The beams are decorated with macabre motifs, bones, liturgical instruments or the gravedigger, with picks or coffins . The columns of the west and east galleries are decorated with couples depicting a dance of death .
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Mit dem Panorama von Rouen wird der Besucher auf eine Reise in die Spätgotik am Aufbruch in die Neuzeit geführt. Anders als häufig assoziiert, wird die Epoche nicht als Zeit des Dunkels und der Rückständigkeit gezeigt, sondern als Epoche des Umbruchs und der Hinwendung zum Individuum.
Das blühende Rouen zeigt sich im regen Treiben der Ritter, Bürger, Handwerker und Bauern sowie des Klerus und des Adels. Die gotische Kathedrale, von deren „Butterturm“ sich die Szenerie erschließt, symbolisiert die strahlende Kirchenarchitektur der Zeit, die ein Licht im apokalyptischen „Dunkel“ des Mittelalters verheißt.
Zudem wird der Hundertjährige Krieg zwischen Frankreich und England thematisiert. Weite Teile Frankreichs waren im 15. Jh. englisch. Nachdem Truppen unter Jeanne d’Arc die Wende zugunsten Frankreichs herbeigeführt hatten, wurde Johanna von Orléans nach Verrat verurteilt und starb 1431 in Rouen auf dem Scheiterhaufen.
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The Rouen Panorama takes visitors on a trip into the late Gothic era at the onset of modern times. Contrary to popular belief, this epoch is not shown as a period of darkness and backwardness, but instead as an age of upheaval and shift towards the individual.
Here you can see the flourishing town of Rouen with its hustle and bustle of knights, citizens, craftsmen and peasants, the clergy and the nobility. The Gothic cathedral with its Butter Tower, from which the scenery is revealed to you, stands for the era's radiant church architecture, which promises a light in the apocalyptic darkness of the Middle Ages.
The Panorama also examines the Hundred Years' War between France and England. Large swathes of France belonged to England in the 15th century. The tide was turned to France's advantage by troops under Joan of Arc, who was tried for treason and died at the stake in 1431 in Rouen.
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Places to see in ( Rouen - France ) St Ouen's Abbey
Places to see in ( Rouen - France ) St Ouen's Abbey
Saint-Ouen Abbey Church, also referred in English as Saint-Owen Abbey Church, is a large Gothic Roman Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. The abbey is famous for both its architecture and its large, unaltered Cavaillé-Coll organ, which has once been described as a Michelangelo of an organ by Charles-Marie Widor. Built on a similar scale to nearby Rouen Cathedral, it is, along with the Church of Saint-Maclou, one of the principal Gothic monuments of Rouen.
The church was originally built as the abbey church of Saint Ouen for the Benedictine Order, beginning in 1318 and interrupted by the Hundred Years' War and sacked and badly damaged during the Harelle. It was completed in the 15th century in the Flamboyant style.
The foundation of St. Ouen's Abbey has been variously credited, among others, to Clothair I and to St. Clothilda, but evidence is scanty. It was dedicated at first to St. Peter when the body of St. Ouen, Archbishop of Rouen (d. 678), was buried there; the name of St. Peter and St. Ouen became common and finally St. Ouen only. The history of the abbey, on record from the 1000, is unremarkable; a list of abbots is in Gallia Christiana XI, 140. In 1660 the monastery was united to the Congregation of St. Maur, and when suppressed, in 1794, the community numbered twenty-four. The abbey building itself was vacated by the time of the French Revolution and was subsequently occupied by the Town Hall of Rouen.
The church is 137 m in length under 33 m high vaults. The central crossing is surmounted by an unusual lantern-style tower similar to that at Ely Cathedral in England. The tower was completed in the Flamboyant style. The well-preserved stained glass of the nave dates to the 15th and 16th centuries, and features jewel tones among panels of clear and frosted white glass. These materials allow more light to filter into the nave, creating a brighter interior than is typical of Gothic churches. Despite the use of Flamboyant tracery in the aisles, triforium, and clerestory, the nave maintains a conservative appearance through the use of compound piers, trumpet bases, and capitals which helps maintain harmony throughout the edifice. The west façade was never completed during the Middle Ages. It was constructed between 1846 and 1851 in a Neo-Gothic style that bears little resemblance to the original Late Gothic designs.
The church contains a large four-manual pipe organ built in 1890 by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. This instrument is considered to be one of the most important organs in France, and is notable for its unusually powerful 32' Contre Bombarde. The organ stands unaltered and thus is one of the few of the master's works to speak with its original voice.
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Rouen Cathedral is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral in Rouen, in northwestern France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Rouen and Normandy.
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Rouen, France
Rouen, capital of the northern French region Haute-Normandie, is a port city on the river Seine. Important in the Roman era and Middle Ages, it has Gothic churches, such as Saint-Maclou and Saint-Ouen, and a cobblestoned pedestrian center with medieval half-timbered houses. The skyline is dominated by the spires of Cathédrale Notre-Dame, much-painted by Impressionist Claude Monet. After a long trial by a church court, Joan of Arc was sentenced to be burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in the Rouen.
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L'Eglise Saint Maclou de Rouen, décor d'une visite théâtralisée : c'est l'une des animations estivales proposées par la Métropole Rouen Normandie. La compagnie rouennaise Acid Kostik présente un spectacle loufoque intitulé Jacques Dupin et le trésor de Saint Maclou. Une façon pour les spectateurs de découvrir d'une autre manière le patrimoine rouennais et normand.
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Places to see in ( Rouen - France )
Places to see in ( Rouen - France )
Rouen, capital of the northern French region Haute-Normandie, is a port city on the river Seine. Important in the Roman era and Middle Ages, it has Gothic churches, such as Saint-Maclou and Saint-Ouen, and a cobblestoned pedestrian center with medieval half-timbered houses. The skyline is dominated by the spires of Cathédrale Notre-Dame, much-painted by Impressionist Claude Monet.
Rouen is a city on the River Seine in the north of France. It is the capital of the region of Normandy. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
Rouen was heavily damaged during World War II - approximately 45% of the city was destroyed. In June 1940 the area between the Rouen Cathedral and the Seine river burned for 48 hours as the Nazis did not allow firemen access to the fire. Other areas were destroyed between March and August 1944 just before and during the Battle of Normandy, which ended on the left bank of the Seine with the destruction of several regiments belonging to the German 7th Army. Rouen's cathedral and several significant monuments were damaged by Allied bombing. During the German occupation, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine had its headquarters located in a château on what is now the Rouen Business School (École Supérieure de Commerce de Rouen). The city was liberated by the Canadians on 30 August 1944 after the breakout from Normandy.
Rouen is known for its Notre Dame cathedral, with its Tour de Beurre (butter tower) financed by the sale of indulgences for the consumption of butter during Lent. The cathedral's gothic façade (completed in the 16th century) was the subject of a series of paintings by Claude Monet, some of which are exhibited in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The Gros Horloge is an astronomical clock dating back to the 16th century. It is located in the Gros Horloge street.
Other famous structures include Rouen Castle, whose keep is known as the tour Jeanne d'Arc, where Joan of Arc was brought in 1431 to be threatened with torture (contrary to popular belief, she was not imprisoned there but in the since destroyed tour de lady Pucelle); the Church of Saint Ouen (12th–15th century); the Palais de Justice, which was once the seat of the Parlement (French court of law) of Normandy; the Gothic Church of St Maclou (15th century); and the Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics which contains a splendid collection of faïence and porcelain for which Rouen was renowned during the 16th to 18th centuries. Rouen is also noted for its surviving half-timbered buildings. There are many museums in Rouen: the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, an art museum with pictures of well-known painters such as Claude Monet and Géricault; the Musée maritime fluvial et portuaire, a museum on the history of the port of Rouen and navigation; Musée des antiquités, an art and history museum with local works from the Bronze Age through the Renaissance, the Musée de la céramique and the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles.
The Jardin des Plantes de Rouen is a notable botanical garden once owned by Scottish banker John Law dated from 1840 in its present form. It was the site of Élisa Garnerin's parachute jump from a balloon in 1817. In the centre of the Place du Vieux Marché (the site of Joan of Arc's pyre) is the modern church of St Joan of Arc. This is a large, modern structure which dominates the square. The form of the building represents an upturned viking boat and a fish shape. Rouen was also home to the French Grand Prix, hosting the race at the nearby Rouen-Les-Essarts track sporadically between 1952 and 1968. In 1999 Rouen authorities demolished the grandstands and other remnants of Rouen's racing past. Today, little remains beyond the public roads that formed the circuit.
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Places to see in ( Rouen - France )
Places to see in ( Rouen - France )
Rouen, capital of the northern French region of Normandy, is a port city on the river Seine. Important in the Roman era and Middle Ages, it has Gothic churches, such as Saint-Maclou and Saint-Ouen, and a cobblestoned pedestrian center with medieval half-timbered houses. The skyline is dominated by the spires of Cathédrale Notre-Dame, much-painted by Impressionist Claude Monet.
Rouen is the capital of the French region of Upper Normandy and situated on the River Seine, approximately 90 minutes drive northwest (135 km) from the centre of Paris. The city has a population of 110,000 and its metropolitan area includes some 520,000 inhabitants. It is where Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake, but the main reason for visiting is its incredible cathedral that inspired Monet to paint over 30 canvases. Rouen was the home of the author, Gustave Flaubert.
With its soaring Gothic cathedral, beautifully restored medieval quarter, excellent museums and vibrant cultural life, Rouen is one of Normandy’s most engaging destinations. The city has had a turbulent history. It was devastated by fire and plague several times during the Middle Ages, and was occupied by the English during the Hundred Years War. The young French heroine Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) was tried for heresy and burned at the stake in the central square in 1431. And during WWII, Allied bombing raids laid waste to large parts of the city, especially south of the cathedral.
Rouen was for a long time France's second city, after Paris, which explains the richness of the town's artistic heritage. Today, it deserves a visit for its monuments, Gothic art being particularly well represented, but also for the charm of its alleyways and the many half-timbered houses there are. The town is situated on the right bank of the River Seine, but today, includes the left bank (the Saint-Sever area in particular, on the south of the river), and the Île Lacroix.
Alot to see in ( Rouen - France ) such as :
Rouen Cathedral (la cathédrale de Rouen)
La Vieille Ville
La Gros-Horloge
Birthplace of writer Gustave Flaubert
Birthplace of playwright Pierre Corneille
Abbatiale St-Ouen
Historial Jeanne d'Arc
Panorama XXL
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Musée Le Secq des Tournelles
Jardin des Plantes
Musée du Patrimoine des Ecoles
Pont Gustave-Flaubert
Centre Sportif Guy Boissière
Théâtre des Arts
Théâtre des Deux Rives
Marché des saveurs
Marché à la brocante
Marché de la Calende
Marché de l'Ile Lacroix
Church of Saint-Maclou
Church of St Joan of Arc
Church of St. Ouen, Rouen
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Tour Jeanne d'Arc
Jardin des Plantes de Rouen
Historial Jeanne d’Arc
Musée Le Secq des Tournelles
Musée de la céramique de Rouen
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen
Musée Flaubert et d'Histoire de la Médecine
place du Vieux-Marché
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Eglise Saint maclou
Prises de vue aérienne de l'Eglise Saint Maclou réalisées à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de l'église.
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