The new community of nuns

In 1936, a new community for the sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Charité was built and attached to the south side of the Vauquelin chapel. The architect Peulevey designed a cloister and conventual building on three levels of great sobriety of line and classical elegance.

The ground floor, which forms the cloister, has arches opening onto the courtyard and a private chapel for the nuns was built in the basement. The final departure of the nuns in March 1979 led to the destruction of the building and the repair of the south wall of the chapel.

The sisters then retired to the Boucicaut retirement home in Mont Saint Aignan. The last sister of the community left this place for good in 2021, thus extinguishing the Congregation of the Hospitaller Sisters of Notre Dame de Charité of Rouen, which had served the sick from 1714 to 1979.

The space freed up by the destruction of this building will be called the Cour de la Communauté.