Église Saint-Martin

English translation

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History

The church is mentioned as early as the 9th century, in the charter called that of Clovis. Building of the end of the 12th century for the greater part, of the 14th century for the lateral chapels. On the outside, on either side of the Romanesque porch, two small columns receive the roll-mouldings on worked capitals. The door has preserved its iron hinges of the beginning of the 12th century. In the semicircular tympanum, hollowed out in the 19th century, a stained glass window has been installed representing Saint Martin. Along the façade of the chapel, a 19th-century iron staircase leads to the door of the bell tower which overhangs the choir. This bell tower, square and massive, is contemporary with the primitive church. Its crowning by a spire dates from the 19th century. The chevet is semi-circular. On the south face, a Romanesque window lights the choir. The sacristy dates from the 18th century (year 1786 inscribed on the lintel). The south part of the choir and chevet presents five stones bearing concentric striations, old lintels dated to the 10th-11th century, reversed when reused. These lintels must have belonged to the original Romanesque windows or to a previous church. Inside, the church presents a nave of three bays extended by a choir on square plan and a semi-circular apse. On either side of the nave opens, under a broken arch, a chapel with rib vault. A dome on hemispherical pendentives surmounts the choir, separated from the apse and nave by broken arches. The columns of the choir, and the separative arch of the apse are polychrome.