Église catholique Saint-Martin

English translation

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History

Dating essentially to the 16th century, the current building presents at first glance a contrast, signalling a chronological gap, between the chevet and the transept on one hand, the rendered walls of the nave, the aisles, the bell tower and the sacristies on the other. With their dressed stone facing, the chevet and the transept constitute the oldest part, and the part most rooted in the Gothic, of the church. This Gothic spirit is found again in the interior elevation of the central vessel, where the absence of a triforium illustrates the mural conception of the nave, characteristic of late Gothic. Renaissance attempts are signalled in the doors of the gutter walls, the Tuscan capitals of the piers separating the central nave and the aisles, and the arcades which they receive. The bell tower, whose first version dated from the 14th century, was moved, rebuilt and furnished with a Neo-Gothic crowning at the beginning of the 20th century.