Religious, Spiritual sights in Chartres
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Collégiale St-André
Chartres' meticulously preserved old city is northeast and east of the cathedral along the narrow western channel of the River Eure, which is spanned by a number of footbridges. From rue Cardinal Pie, the stairway called Tertre St-Nicolas and rue Chantault - the latter lined with medieval houses - lead down to the empty shell of the 12th-century Collégiale St-André, a Romanesque collegiate church closed in 1791 and severely damaged in the early 19th century and again in 1944.
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Église St-Pierre
From place St-Pierre, you get a good view of the flying buttresses holding up the 12th- and 13th-century Église St-Pierre. Once part of a Benedictine monastery founded in the 7th century, it was outside the city walls and thus vulnerable to attack; the fortress-like, pre-Romanesque bell tower attached to it was used as a refuge by monks and dates from around 1000. The fine, brightly coloured clerestory windows in the nave, choir and apse date from the early 14th century.
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Église St-Aignan
Église St-Aignan, first built in the early 16th century, is interesting for its wooden barrel-vault roof (1625), arcaded nave and painted interior of faded blue and gold floral motifs (c 1870). The stained glass and the Renaissance Chapelle de St-Michel date from the 16th century.
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