Church of Saint-Maclou

The Church of Saint-Maclou is a Roman catholic church in Rouen, France which is viewed as a standout amongst the best instances of the flamboyant style of Gothic engineering in France. Saint-Maclou, alongside Rouen Cathedral, the Palais de Justice, and the church of St. Ouen, structure a celebrated outfit of noteworthy gothic structures in Rouen. Its tower achieves a stature of 83 meters.

The church of Saint Maclou was worked amid the change from the late gothic time frame to the renaissance in the 16th century. The space over an entryway inside the curve is alluded to as the tympanum. Commonly, the tympanum is loaded up with model of a scene insinuating Heaven and Hell. The tympanum of the fundamental passageway of the church of Saint Maclou shows christ remaining with his hands held out to individuals encompassing him, those to his correct heading for heaven and those to one side heading for the red hot pits of Hell. This message, normally delineated amid the Gothic time frame, was intended to unnerve and inspire feeling from people in general. The design plan of the congregation of Saint-Maclou incorporates emanating houses of prayer. Saint-Maclou, as most Gothic places of worship, had numerous outside stone statues; be that as it may, they endured a great part of the French wars of religion, climate conditions, and contamination.