Église Saint-Martin

English translation

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History

The building probably dates from the 11th century and then consisted of a nave with a continuous barrel vault, a choir with a simple barrel vault upon which opened two semicircular apsidioles with oven vaults, a semicircular apse also with an oven vault, a comb tower on the western gable. The walls were constructed in poorly-coursed rubble stone. Of the primitive door, only the wrought-iron hinges remain, the portal itself having disappeared. At a period difficult to specify, the barrel vault of the nave was rebuilt with lateral penetrations or else it was merely decided to create these penetrations. On the exterior, on the north face of the nave is seen a band of ashlar that forms a stringcourse and appears to be the seating of the old cornice or the latter returned at the time of heightening. It was probably at this time that the comb tower was removed, replaced by a square bell tower to the south of the apse of which only the lower storey remains. In the 18th century, construction of the chapels of the Rosary and of Christ, decorated with woodwork and paintings. The modern bell tower dates from this period. It was constructed on the walls of the chapel of Christ, replacing the previous bell tower probably collapsed.