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Aître Saint Maclou
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Saint-Maclou's Aître: A?tre Saint Maclou
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  • Updated By MartinaH on February 10, 2006
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  • Aître Saint Maclou - Rouen
    Aître Saint Maclou
    by MartinaH
    After the Great Plague in 1348 they were obliged to create a new cimetery and they called it A?tre de Saint Maclou.

    Today it's the home of the Regional Fine Arts School.

    Near the entry is a glass case with a sceleton of a cat inside. It was found in the walls of the building... weird...

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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: Aître St. Maclou
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  • Updated By ATLC on September 24, 2002
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  • Saint-Maclou's Aître - Rouen
    by ATLC
    And along Rue Martainville we came to the cloisters of St. Maclou. This 16c place is one of the last remaining examples of a medieval plague cemetery.
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    Half timbered buildings were erected along four sides of this yard between 1526 and 1533. The ground floor used to be open galleries like in ordinary cloisters. The attic was used as a charnel house.

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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: Aìtre Saint-Maclou
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  • By Cristian_Uluru on October 16, 2006
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  • Aìtre Saint-Maclou - Rouen
    Aìtre Saint-Maclou
    by Cristian_Uluru,
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    Walking along Rue Martaiville you can see on the left a wide courtyard called Aìtre Saint-Maclou. The name comes from the latin atrium which mean courtyard.
    This courtyard is a wonderful example of Medieval ossuary built between 1526 and 1533 during the pestilence ages.
    The wide courtyard has got an architecture a colombage on its sides and on the pillars yuo can see as decorations bones, skulls and death figures.
    Today it is home of the Ecole of Beaux Arts.

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  • Address: Rue Martainville
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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: Enter the Courtyard
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  • By hquittner on January 24, 2008
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  • A Well in the Courtyard - Rouen
    A Well in the Courtyard
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    The aitre (atrium) of St.-Maclou is a courtyard surrounded by a series of two-level half-timbered buildings, the upper floors of which were used as a charnel house (ossuary). They were built from 1526-33. The lower level was originally open giving the area a cloister-like effect. There is a frieze running between the floors that is carved with memento mori:skull and crossbones, spades, sickles, hour glasses, etc. On the vertical shafts are worn carvings that presumably illustrate the Dance of Death, but we were not familiar with that when we were there last and did not attempt to capture such details on film (we became informed about that Custom during an Off the Beaten Path Chartres visit;See those Tips). The courtyard served as a temporary cemetery until the bones were in condition to be moved to the ossuary. The lower level today is closed in and the buildings are used as part of the School of Fine Arts and Architecture.

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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: old and beautiful classy,Aitre de St Maclou
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  • Updated By pedmar on July 24, 2009
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  • behind the st of saint maclou - Rouen
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    the history goes back to the black epidemy of 1348, which killed Three quarters of the population of the district. It was here that a new cementary was built,the aître saint Maclou. Three galleries were built around the cementary between 1526 and 1533 to serve as usuary.

    The south gallery always served as a school and today houses the Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts ( regional school of fine arts). In the windows, near the entry door, it is place the skeleton of a cat, discovered in the walls. It is without doubt a black cat (the devil) enclosed alive in the wooden vault to put away the bad spirits
    The Aître ST Maclou is open :
    From april 1 to october 31, every day from 8-20h,
    From november 1 to March 31, every day from 8-19h.

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  • Address: pl saint Maclou
  • Directions: st maclou just behind the cathedral area perpendicular to the river seine
  • Website: http://www.rouentourisme.com/
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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: A?tre Saint Maclou
  • By MartinaH on April 18, 2004
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  • Aître Saint Maclou - Rouen
    Aître Saint Maclou
    by MartinaH
    Here's another picture I've taken while walking around.

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  • By Tomtom-Paris on September 13, 2002
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  • Saint-Maclou's Aître - Rouen
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    The old, cloister shaped, parish cemetary occupied today by the school of Fine Arts.

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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: Aître Saint-Maclou
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  • By MikeAtSea on September 25, 2007
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  • Aître Saint-Maclou - Rouen
    Aître Saint-Maclou
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    The history of this strange, yet exceptional site dates back from the Great Plague of 1348, which killed three-fourth of the parish. The Aître Saint-Maclou was thus built as a plague cemetery. The building now is home to the Regional Fine Arts School.

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  • Address: Rue Martainville, Rouen
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    Saint-Maclou's Aître: Saint-Maclou, another beautiful gothic church
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  • By Pavlik_NL on December 13, 2007
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  • Gothic extravaganza at Saint-Maclou's church - Rouen
    Gothic extravaganza at
    Saint-Maclou's church
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    We've seen the magnificent cathedrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, we've admired the beauty of Saint-Ouen abbey church and now here is a thrid, equally beautiful chruch, inside the quarter of Rouen that baes it's name: Saint-Maclou. This church, in the middle of one of the most wonderful parts of Rouen (streets full with woodwork "vakwerk" houses). It is a perfect example of extravagant gothic architecture, full of fine decoartions, statues, ornaments, forms and shapes. Walking around is a joy for the eyes, especially the five arches that are most famous of Saint Maclou church. Carefully restored after the bombings in the second worldwar, this church is a top attraction in medieval Rouen.
    Little further into the quarter one can also visit the beautiful courtyard of Saint Maclou. A green oasis inside the busy streets of Rouen's citycentre.

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  • Address: Rue Saint-Barthelemy
  • Directions: Through the alleys at the back of the cathedrale Notre-Dame de Rouen along the prison walls
  • Website: http://www.dboc.net/rouen/oc_rouen_maclou.php
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