The Manoir du Fay in Yvetot

Park at Place de la Mairie.

(S/E) With your back to the building, head towards the town centre via Rue de l'Étang. At the roundabout, turn right, cross Rue du Calvaire and continue straight ahead.

After the Ivory Museum and the Tourist Office, turn right onto Rue Percée. Pass the Galerie Duchamp on your left and turn left onto Rue de l’Avalasse. At the end, turn right onto Rue Carnot, keeping to the left-hand pavement. At the T-junction, cross the D6015 by taking the tunnel entrance on your left, which goes under the road.

(1) Continue straight ahead along Rue Carnot until you reach Cahan-Lhermite Primary School, then the nursery school. Take the first left into Rue du Champ de Mars, keeping to the right-hand pavement. At the end, turn right, with the Résidence des Dames Blanches on your right. Go round the roundabout on the right, then turn left and right, crossing over the railway lines. Cross Route de Doudeville and turn left until you reach the first turning on the right.

(2) Turn right onto Rue des Zigs Zags and walk past the cemetery. At the end of the street, just opposite the Manoir du Fay park, turn right. At the T-junction, turn left onto Rue du Chant des Oiseaux.

(3) Turn left again onto Rue du Manoir du Fay. At the T-junction, turn left onto Rue du Grand Fay and continue to the next junction. Cross the road and continue straight ahead onto Rue du Petit Fay. Go under the railway bridge and take the ramp on the left which leads to the front of the station.

(4) With the station on your left, ignore the roads on the right and continue straight ahead along the pedestrian path in the middle of the car park. When you reach La Moutardière, a business park, on your left, turn right. Cross Rue de la Gare, continue straight ahead onto Rue Clovis Cappon and take the first right onto Rue Lormier, until you reach the junction with the D131.

(5) Turn left onto Rue de la République. At the junction, cross the avenue and continue straight ahead onto Rue des Victoires. Ignore three left-hand turns.

(6) At the traffic lights, turn left, directly opposite Saint-Pierre Church. Walk past the shops on your left along the Mail, cross the road ahead and continue straight on. At the roundabout, go straight ahead to return to the starting point. (S/E)

Parking: Rue de l'Étang or Place de la Mairie.
This route was largely created by the Yvetot Tourist Office: "Discovering part of Yvetot’s heritage and history".

Shortly afterwards (S/E), the building housing the Musée des Ivoires and the Tourist Office was the former Commercial Court, built in 1790.

After (1) The Cahan-Lhermitte School. Here, the first boys’ school opened in 1882: the Cahan School (in 1967), named after the former headmaster. In order to improve educational conditions for girls, Mayor E. Lhermitte had a new school built next to the boys’ school. Inaugurated in 1908, it took the name Lhermitte in 1967. The school became the Cahan-Lhermitte School Complex following its merger with its neighbour in 1997.

(1) The residence of the Dames Blanches. The residence was originally an old textile factory. The nuns moved in in 1829, and the building thus became the convent of the Dames Blanches. A chapel was added in 1849. Today, the residence is a care home for the elderly (EHPAD).

(2) The Manoir du Fay. It was Pierre Houel, Sieur de Valleville, who had the manor house built between 1613 and 1617 on his estate at Le Fay. A few years later, Pierre Corneille came to visit his uncle, who was then parish priest of Sainte-Marie des Champs. The manor house served temporarily as a detention centre during the Revolution.

(4) Yvetot railway station. Built in the English architectural style, it was constructed in 1847 by William Tite. Yvetot station was opened on 22 March 1847 by the Rouen–Le Havre Railway Company when it commenced operations on the extension of the Paris–Rouen line.

(4) La Moutardière. A red-brick building constructed in 1912 near the station. Industrialists took advantage of the railway to expand their businesses. After the Second World War, the Bocquet company purchased the building, which had stood disused since 1939. For some fifty years, the factory produced the famous Bocquet mustard until it closed in 1992. The building now houses several businesses.

(5) Saint Pierre Church replaces the 17th-century church, which was destroyed by bombing in 1940.
Striking for its round shape and pink colour, it was built between 1951 and 1956.
It houses the largest stained-glass window in Europe (1,026 m²), created by Max Ingrand.